Simplifying UTxO - Bitcoin Unspent Transaction Output

in #bitcoin7 years ago

A simple example of UTxO / Bitcoin Unspent Transaction Output

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Consider the following scenarios.

Scenario 1

Alice sends me 1 BTC, I send Bob 1 BTC.
In this case, I have no Unspent Transactions.

Scenario 2

Alice sends me 1 BTC, I keep it with myself
In this case, 1 BTC is unspent transaction output for me

Scenario 3

Alice sends me 1 BTC, I want to send 0.25 BTC to Bob, and keep 0.75 with myself
In this case, I have to create two transactions
I send 0.25 BTC to Bob
and
I send 0.75 BTC to myself (using a change address).

Modern Bitcoin wallets do this automatically

The keypoint to note there that INPUT is always equal to OUTPUT (Spent or Unspent).
You cannot arbitrarily split a bitcoin and keep a part of it with you.

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a bit late here but thanks for this info.

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