diff --git a/addresses.txt b/addresses.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..174cedb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addresses.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mtLDA41NWe9rLm7nuMvAnTs2SbP49cz1ZR
diff --git a/lib/services/address/index.js b/lib/services/address/index.js
index c628a529..94369bf1 100644
--- a/lib/services/address/index.js
+++ b/lib/services/address/index.js
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ var utils = require('../../utils');
 var AddressService = function(options) {
 
   BaseService.call(this, options);
-  this._tx = this.node.services.transaction;
   this._header = this.node.services.header;
   this._block = this.node.services.block;
   this._timestamp = this.node.services.timestamp;
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ var AddressService = function(options) {
     this._network = 'testnet';
   }
 
-
 };
 
 inherits(AddressService, BaseService);
@@ -46,8 +44,80 @@ AddressService.dependencies = [
   'mempool'
 ];
 
-// ---- public function prototypes
+AddressService.prototype._applySpendingTxsToOutputs = function(tx, options, callback) {
+
+  var self = this;
+
+  async.eachOfLimit(tx.outputs, 4, function(output, index, next) {
+
+    var address = utils.getAddress(output, self._network);
+
+    if (!address || !tx.__height) {
+      return next();
+    }
+
+    self.getAddressHistory(address, { start: tx.__height }, function(err, history) {
+
+      if (err) {
+        return next(err);
+      }
+
+      // there should be zero or one tx count, if there are more, then this output was double spent
+      if (history.totalCount === 1) {
+        var spentTx = history.items[0];
+
+        tx.outputs[index].spentTxId = spentTx.txid();
+
+        for(var i = 0; i < spentTx.inputs.length; i++) {
+          var input = spentTx.inputs[i];
+          if (input.prevout.txid() === tx.txid()) {
+            output.spentIndex = i;
+          }
+        }
+
+        assert(output.spentIndex >= 0, 'Transaction Service: found spending tx, but could not find index.');
+
+        output.spentHeight = tx.__height || 0;
+      }
+      next();
+
+    });
+
+  }, function(err) {
+
+    if (err) {
+      return callback(err);
+    }
+
+console.log(tx.outputs[0].spentTxId);
+    callback(null, tx);
+
+  });
+
+};
+
+AddressService.prototype.getTransactionWithAddressInfo = function(txid, options, callback) {
+
+  var self = this;
+  self._transaction.getTransaction(txid, options, function(err, tx) {
+
+    if (err) {
+      return callback(err);
+    }
+
+    if (!tx) {
+      return callback();
+    }
+
+   // locate any tx that spent this tx's outputs
+   self._applySpendingTxsToOutputs(tx, options, callback);
+
+  });
+
+};
+
 AddressService.prototype.getAddressHistory = function(addresses, options, callback) {
+
   var self = this;
 
   options = options || {};
@@ -73,7 +143,7 @@ AddressService.prototype.getAddressHistory = function(addresses, options, callba
     }
 
     // TODO: these should already be ordered correctly, please check
-   txList = utils.dedupByTxid(txList);
+    txList = utils.dedupByTxid(txList);
     txList = utils.orderByConfirmations(txList);
 
     var results = {
@@ -369,7 +439,7 @@ AddressService.prototype._transformTxForAddressHistory = function(opts, chunk, e
     return callback();
   }
 
-  self._tx.getTransaction(txid, opts, function(err, tx) {
+  self._transaction.getTransaction(txid, opts, function(err, tx) {
 
     if (err) {
       log.error('Address Service: gettransaction ' + err);
diff --git a/lib/services/transaction/index.js b/lib/services/transaction/index.js
index a6ef3551..a72a4c5a 100644
--- a/lib/services/transaction/index.js
+++ b/lib/services/transaction/index.js
@@ -51,64 +51,6 @@ TransactionService.prototype.getAPIMethods = function() {
   ];
 };
 
-TransactionService.prototype._getDoubleSpentTxID = function(tx, callback) {
-  // for there to be a tx in our mempool that is double spending this tx,
-  // then at least one other tx in the mempool must be spending at least one of the
-  // outputs that this tx is spending
-
-  // TODO
-  // we don't index the mempool to easily handle this because we would have to exhaustively
-  // search through all of the mempool txs
-
-  // we should probably have an index whose key is prevtxid + output index + spendingtxid and no value
-  // then we could quickly loop over all inputs and get their spending txids in a list.
-  // then subtract the list and this will be your double spending txids.
-
-  // when a new block comes in, it may confirm up to one of those tx's. It should be very easily to
-  // delete the correct one because we have the block and the tx.
-  return callback();
-
-};
-
-TransactionService.prototype._getConfirmationsForInputs = function(tx, callback) {
-  // for every input, check to see if its referenced input is confirmed.
-  return callback();
-};
-
-TransactionService.prototype._getSpentInformationForOutputs = function(tx, callback) {
-
-  var self = this;
-
-  async.mapLimit(tx.outputs, 4, function(output, next) {
-
-    var address = output.getAddress();
-
-    if (!address) {
-      return next();
-    }
-
-    address.network = self._network;
-    address = address.toString();
-
-    self._address._getInputInfoForAddress(address, next);
-
-  }, function(err) {
-
-    if(err) {
-      return callback(err);
-    }
-
-    // we have an array for every output representing all the input info for the address
-    // we need to take each txid in the input info and get the tx but only if the height is greater this
-    // tx's height
-
-    callback();
-
-  });
-
-};
-
-TransactionService.prototype.getDetailedTransaction =
 TransactionService.prototype.getTransaction = function(txid, options, callback) {
 
   var self = this;