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As per What’s the role of the EVM in a plain ether transfer between Externally Owned Accounts?, one would expect that the sending account will get debited right after the transfer call. Yet, that does not happen. Am I missing something obvious?

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  • I think that the block chain has to be updated, and the my Geth instance has to download that block to see that there was a transfer and only then eth.getBalance call will return the new balance for the sending account. – devsubhro Jul 22 '16 at 15:41

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The value will be debited from the sending account once the transaction is included in a block. Until then, while the transaction is in the mempool (pending inclusion in a block), geth maintains a temporary state which will also have decreased the balance, but which will only be returned by getBalance if you have mining activated.

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  • Thanks, this explains it. I am not running Geth in mining mode, sogetBalance() will not return the decreased amount. I have to wait till the sending transaction is included in a block and then getBalance() will return the decreased amount. – devsubhro Jul 25 '16 at 07:10