spendable is true for UTXO of private key disabled wallet

sagarkarki99 commented at 8:26 am on August 1, 2025: none

I have a private key disabled descriptors wallet which I use to watch transactions. Upon fetchings the UTXOs using listunspent, the spendable is true. Documentations says: "spendable" : true|false, (boolean) Whether we have the private keys to spend this output. Shouldn’t the spendable be false for this case, as it belongs to wallet where there is no private keys? here is wallet info:

 0➜  Bitcoin bcr -rpcwallet=external_wallet getwalletinfo                    
 1{
 2  "walletname": "external_wallet",
 3  "walletversion": 169900,
 4  "format": "sqlite",
 5  "balance": 0.40000000,
 6  "unconfirmed_balance": 0.00000000,
 7  "immature_balance": 0.00000000,
 8  "txcount": 2,
 9  "keypoolsize": 0,
10  "keypoolsize_hd_internal": 0,
11  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
12  "private_keys_enabled": false,
13  "avoid_reuse": false,
14  "scanning": false,
15  "descriptors": true,
16  "external_signer": false,
17  "blank": false,
18  "birthtime": 1753968753,
19  "lastprocessedblock": {
20    "hash": "5970828895b15604c4cea51a14a41b133a47df184c409c90a39bc642ee4bc432",
21    "height": 1508
22  }
23}

Here is the UTXOs:

 0➜  Bitcoin bcr -rpcwallet=external_wallet listunspent                      
 1[
 2  {
 3    "txid": "8f1f2ba7d445629d8d7390c0f364b49079b3ad3b759771a11483f67254650c9c",
 4    "vout": 0,
 5    "address": "mqM7vzxMtjQAeECdEkKyY1ucAtd1QiVYaZ",
 6    "label": "",
 7    "scriptPubKey": "76a9146bd5248d652a8600a6031b2b4c0f8e7a93ee662b88ac",
 8    "amount": 0.30000000,
 9    "confirmations": 1,
10    "spendable": true,
11    "solvable": true,
12    "desc": "pkh([6bd5248d]04089246add2fd7e2edf9b137e3b3e3b894fc9fc8d0697884fcad30be0ad578c4ccb7c2614f0a72df69298bc6e1e003b0f684676dd6f6a4168d41975221a8aaa5b)#edkkr0h5",
13    "parent_descs": [
14      "pkh(04089246add2fd7e2edf9b137e3b3e3b894fc9fc8d0697884fcad30be0ad578c4ccb7c2614f0a72df69298bc6e1e003b0f684676dd6f6a4168d41975221a8aaa5b)#gsvkgg0f"
15    ],
16    "safe": true
17  },
18  {
19    "txid": "8f52bd309b79cda01e0eb75e37f154dc1acad7478a0b95cb3d598b3c6c7d0a38",
20    "vout": 0,
21    "address": "mqM7vzxMtjQAeECdEkKyY1ucAtd1QiVYaZ",
22    "label": "",
23    "scriptPubKey": "76a9146bd5248d652a8600a6031b2b4c0f8e7a93ee662b88ac",
24    "amount": 0.10000000,
25    "confirmations": 205,
26    "spendable": true,
27    "solvable": true,
28    "desc": "pkh([6bd5248d]04089246add2fd7e2edf9b137e3b3e3b894fc9fc8d0697884fcad30be0ad578c4ccb7c2614f0a72df69298bc6e1e003b0f684676dd6f6a4168d41975221a8aaa5b)#edkkr0h5",
29    "parent_descs": [
30      "pkh(04089246add2fd7e2edf9b137e3b3e3b894fc9fc8d0697884fcad30be0ad578c4ccb7c2614f0a72df69298bc6e1e003b0f684676dd6f6a4168d41975221a8aaa5b)#gsvkgg0f"
31    ],
32    "safe": true
33  }
34]

sagarkarki99 renamed this:
~~spendable is true for UTXO of private key disabled UTXO~~
spendable is true for UTXO of private key disabled wallet
on Aug 1, 2025

achow101 commented at 7:02 pm on August 1, 2025: member

The docs need to be updated, spendable is always true for UTXOs belonging to a descriptor wallet, including ones without private keys.

w0xlt commented at 6:03 pm on August 7, 2025: contributor

Considering that the legacy wallet can no longer be loaded, will this field always be true?

sagarkarki99 commented at 5:02 pm on August 9, 2025: none

Then the field is deprecated as commented by @w0xlt here. Thanks @achow101

achow101 closed this on Aug 21, 2025

spendable is true for UTXO of private key disabled wallet #33110