I get around that problem by using the Wallet class (iirc the pizza bot does it this way as well, my source is mostly built on pizza bot)
Maybe that was added to pizzabot after I forked it, alivebot is also based on that, when I ran into this issue I added an exception for no valid balances.
But does the hbit bot check balances?
I don't know, but I would think not.
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