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by M4v3R 4336 days ago
It's not "nearly impossible", but it's not _easy_ either. You really need to store all inputs for a given address since the genesis block to obtain the balance of this address. You cannot get that information from elsewhere (apart from 3rd party APIs but then you have to trust the 3rd party, kind of defeating the purpose of Bitcoin).