BTC sent to an unknown address. shows "unspent" - page 2.

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legendary

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If you open the transaction in Electrum (double click in transaction history... or right click and select details)... what colour are the 2 outputs?

One should be yellow (your change address)... what colour is the other one? If it is Green, it's one of your addresses and you're somehow sent funds to yourself. If it has no highlighting, then it is an external address.

Quote from: maxxoutt on November 21, 2019, 05:17:43 PM

The funds say "unspent". So what do you think happened?

"unspent" simply means that outputs created by the transaction have not been spent by whomever received them.

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And why did it create 2 outputs, one of them being mine? Any suggestions on what to do?

2 outputs is fairly normal when you have "change"... You can't "break" an input... you have to spend the whole thing. Much like having a $20 note in your pocket and trying to spend $1... you have to give the person the whole $20 and they'll give change. Same in bitcoin... you have 0.01 and need to spend 0.002? then the person gets 0.002 and you get 0.008 back to your "change address".

read this for more: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change

One last thing to check... what version of Electrum are you running? If it is 4.0.0, then it's a fake version. I vaguely recall seeing issues where these fake versions would change the address that funds were being sent to.

jackg

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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

Does it show a negative on the transaction and is it negative the amount you meant to sent?

It could be that you've accidentally sent the funds to yourself and then it'd show - 0.00001 to account for fees (or close to that).

Can you take a screenshot of the wallet?

maxxoutt

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Completely BTC illiterate. But yesterday I copied and pasted the vendor's BTC address into my electrum wallet and sent funds. He hasn't received them, and when I search the TXID, there are 2 outputs created; one is my change address, then the other is an address that neither of us recognize. I checked my computer by copy and pasting other addresses to see if I had malware that would change them, and they didn't change.

The funds say "unspent". So what do you think happened? And why did it create 2 outputs, one of them being mine? Any suggestions on what to do?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my lack of knowledge. I can post the TXID but I don't know if that is cool to do.

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