What RPC can I use to query the balance of an arbitrary address How do I get the balance of an arbitrary address using Bitcoin RPC calls? From the RPC calls I can see you are required to have the private key or an account to use the RPC.

For illustrations sake, if you could demo querying this address:

1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v

That would be great. Here is the actual balance for this address.
This has already been answered here:


Calculating address balance
How to get an address&#39;s balance with the bitcoin client?


The pull request for this feature (support for watch-only addresses) can be found at: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4045