If you've received 10 $1000 payments from your job in bitcoin and now want to buy a brand new $10 000 toaster, you'll have to create a transaction that has 10 i

If you've received 10 $1000 payments from your job in bitcoin and now want to buy a brand new $10 000 toaster, you'll have to create a transaction that has 10 inputs and one output. A more typical example is a miner who receives very frequent payouts from a mining pool over the course of a few months, and then wants to send all of their money to a bitcoin exchange to pay for their power. Some people create massive transactions just to mess with the bitcoin network, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: Someone lower in the comments asked why people create large transactions to mess with the network, and I don't really know for sure--some people have unknown motivations, or want to prove a political point. Some are public, and I assume some are done secretly. Here's an example of one that was public: https://multibit.org/blog/2015/06/23/bitcoin-network-stress-test.html https://multibit.org/blog/2015/06/23/bitcoin-network-stress-...