getbalance and listaccounts returning incorrect balance (testnet)

[bitcartel]

Problem: Testnet wallet account "elmo" is showing a balance of 1.02 but should instead show 0.01.

bitcoin-cli -testnet getinfo
{
    "version" : 100000,
    "protocolversion" : 70002,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 2.66964380,
    "blocks" : 350108,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "connections" : 0,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 1.00000000,
    "testnet" : true,
    "keypoololdest" : 1426225664,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "relayfee" : 0.00001000,
    "errors" : ""
}

bitcoin-cli -testnet listaccounts
{
    "" : 1.64964380,
    "elmo" : 1.02000000,
}

bitcoin-cli -testnet getbalance elmo
1.02000000

bitcoin-cli -testnet listreceivedbyaccount 1 true       
[
    {
        "account" : "",
        "amount" : 2.06080000,
        "confirmations" : 1040
    },
    {
        "account" : "elmo",
        "amount" : 1.02000000,
        "confirmations" : 22149
    },

However when using listunspent to examine the UTXO in the wallet, there is only one UTXO assigned to the account "elmo" and this UTXO shows a balance of 0.01.

{
        "txid" : "42e2579dd090415713510c5cc58aa13afd14cfc2a1fb6ebee873afc169927e8b",
        "vout" : 0,
        "address" : "myZ2mEYZt1CyRPgdE6oXRbAJWbaaTtTwRi",
        "account" : "elmo",
        "scriptPubKey" : "76a914c5d6d3854e653be3c31e66d322cb0a05cb0a17c888ac",
        "amount" : 0.01000000,
        "confirmations" : 22149,
        "spendable" : true
}

Here are the two addresses associated with account "elmo"

bitcoin-cli -testnet getaddressesbyaccount elmo
[
    "mkwLg4ARNWimVW1Bh9uxv9SKdfNnPHRHWr",
    "myZ2mEYZt1CyRPgdE6oXRbAJWbaaTtTwRi"
]

Two separate block explorers report the balance of each address as:

http://tbtc.blockr.io/address/info/myZ2mEYZt1CyRPgdE6oXRbAJWbaaTtTwRi
https://www.blocktrail.com/tBTC/address/myZ2mEYZt1CyRPgdE6oXRbAJWbaaTtTwRi
0.01

http://tbtc.blockr.io/address/info/mkwLg4ARNWimVW1Bh9uxv9SKdfNnPHRHWr
https://www.blocktrail.com/tBTC/address/mkwLg4ARNWimVW1Bh9uxv9SKdfNnPHRHWr
0

So it appears that bitcoind is returning an incorrect balance of 1.02 instead of 0.01.

[luke-jr]

If there is a bug here, it's listunspent suggesting that UTXOs are associated with addresses or accounts: They are not.

[sipa]

I think the bug here is reporting an account name for the listunspent
output. UTXOs are not associated with accounts; they are shared with the
whole wallet, always.

Accounts are just bean counters. Their value is increased when a
transaction is received with an address associated with the account. Their
value is decreased when a sendfrom RPC is issued or using the move RPC.
Using normal sendtoaddress or sendmany will always debit the "" account.
This is a frequent source of confusion, and the account system is being
deprecated for this and other reasons.

[bitcartel]

Thanks, I agree.

So it's confirmed that the account system will be deprecated for 0.11 as discussed in #3816 ? Will JSON-RPC responses such as listunspent continue to return an account field during the deprecation phase or will they be removed immediately?

[laanwj]

@bitcartel Accounts will be replaced by labels, which are just a handle for an output script/address. At most the return field will be renamed at some point (not for 0.11 though).

[hamnaz]

any suggestion for me, what balance i have ?

~/bitcoin-0.16.3/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli getwalletinfo
{
"walletname": "wallet.dat",
"walletversion": 159900,
"balance": 19.86576864,
"unconfirmed_balance": 0.00000000,
"immature_balance": 0.00000000,
"txcount": 5666,
"keypoololdest": 1538466741,
"keypoolsize": 1000,
"keypoolsize_hd_internal": 1000,
"paytxfee": 0.00000000,

~/bitcoin-0.16.3/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli getbalance
19.86576864

~/bitcoin-0.16.3/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli getreceivedbyaccount ""
253.57105799

~/bitcoin-0.16.3/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli listreceivedbyaccount
[
{
"account": "",
"amount": 253.55285799,
"confirmations": 12947
}
]

---

~/bitcoin-0.16.3/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli listaccounts
{
"": 0.00020000,
"wallet.dat": 0.00000000
}

---

~/bitcoin-0.16.3/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli listunspent
[
{
"txid": "15e9ee719ddf0e1f68586b856c5d8e58c7bcb37c955f03a91ed6d9531d68431b",
"vout": 3,
"address": "1HyAcHNbUaW8pSWYQWvsobpQFd44BK4xgc",
"account": "",
"scriptPubKey": "76a914ba2153b777d3aa93e3ad6fe549636be5204075b788ac",
"amount": 0.00020000,
"confirmations": 208324,
"spendable": true,
"solvable": true,
"safe": true
},
{
"txid": "94e247464e6d5f323b0c781ffe0c42562afeafd01430fb7f55ad58b3cf5eb928",
"vout": 0,
"address": "17zHADrQXRtTycekZzm5NcxkmxduFTwi7v",
"account": "",
"scriptPubKey": "76a9144ca5f410395ed81039a8230fb4a825f96e0080c288ac",
"amount": 0.00020000,
"confirmations": 119800,
"spendable": true,
"solvable": true,
"safe": true
}
]