Incorrect balance of earlier addresses

[shikita]

Latest version of client and server.

Tried to get balance of "1NY3Pr8EYgy74K5DwQCYkKsE4dYNeiGUGg" got 0 but on online block explorers it shows 50 BTC. what might be the reason?

[kyuupichan]

It doesn't include P2PK payments

[shikita]

i got only little idea about P2PK. so there won't be any new p2pk payments ? is P2PK deprecated ?

[kyuupichan]

It works fine. It is up to the people concerned how they receive payments; they may or may not choose to use P2PK or indeed P2PKH. The assignment of bitcoin addresses to P2PK payments is non-standard and a hack anyway, so I'd argue the block explorers are responsible for the confusion.

[shikita]

what is the reason for not including the P2PK payments in ElectrumX?
And how to get balance of those payments from ElectrumX?

[kyuupichan]

They are there, you just need a different query

[shikita]

would you give an example to query P2PK transactions? Thank you very much for your patience.

[kyuupichan]

See the ElectrumX protocol docs.

[shikita]

hmmm. Ok. Thank you.

[SomberNight]

Note there is currently no way to monitor ("import") a P2PK script in Electrum (but any script can be monitored server-side). You can however sweep coins from P2PK scripts.

A reasonable way to support importing these scripts would be what Bitcoin Core started doing recently:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md
i.e. using output script descriptors