Ethereum Account Balance

eth_account_balance.md

//Just getting the requirements
var Trie = require('merkle-patricia-tree/secure');
var levelup = require('levelup');
var leveldown = require('leveldown');
var RLP = require('rlp');
var assert = require('assert');
var VM = require('ethereumjs-vm')
var Account = require('ethereumjs-account')


//Connecting to the leveldb database
var db = levelup(leveldown('/home/tp/gethDataDir/geth/chaindata'));

//Adding the "stateRoot" value from the block so that we can inspect the state root at that block height.
var root = '0x9369577baeb7c4e971ebe76f5d5daddba44c2aa42193248245cf686d20a73028';

//Creating a trie object of the merkle-patricia-tree library
var trie = new Trie(db, root);

//Trying new code from ethereumjs
var address = '0x9b3d09e19739d47817dfa5a2462656a028099854';
trie.get(address, function (err, raw) {
    if (err) return cb(err)
    var account = new Account(raw)
    var exists = !!raw
    account.exists = exists
    console.log(account.balance.toString());
    console.log(RLP.decode(account.balance,[skipRemainderCheck=false]));
})