I want my contract to check a given range of blocks and see whether there are any transactions between a given pair of addresses. Is this possible to do in Solidity? Otherwise how would I do it?
2 Answers
No, its not possible the EVM is pretty isolated. Alternative way is to watch the blockchain with a web3.js
script and notify your contract. Of course this is a potential security hole.
The opcodes of the EVM do only have limited access to the current block.
If those two addresses are contracts, they could be coded to inform a "watching" contract of any interactions. Unfortunately, they would have to be specifically programmed to do this.
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1Thank you for the answer. But in my case, the two addresses are not contracts.– l pCommented Jun 15, 2016 at 14:51