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In the article is the example of paying somebody 0.15 of a bitcoin with the input of 0.20 and two outputs, 0.15 to the payee and 0.05 back to oneself. I am pict
by fernly 13y ago
In the article is the example of paying somebody 0.15 of a bitcoin with the input of 0.20 and two outputs, 0.15 to the payee and 0.05 back to oneself. I am picturing having my wallet cluttered with lots of such little fractional bits, the "change" from transactions. How to tidy up? But maybe the answer is, next time I want to pay somebody 0.10 I just give them two my 0.05 "nickel" pieces... Well, I said it was a dumb question...
- diminoten 13y agoIf you want to, you could create a transaction that lets you spend all of those "loose change" transactions into a bigger transaction. You have to do this for assurance contracts [0], for example, where the transaction cannot have any change (a transaction back to yourself). [0] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_3:_Assurance_contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_3:_Assurance_co...