Electrum broadcasting same transaction

mr_burdell

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Quote from: shorena on September 04, 2014, 01:44:18 AM

Quote from: btcguys on September 03, 2014, 08:33:49 PM

Thank you. This is helpful!

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What if address is not changed to address C? for example what if address A still has some funds?

Thats not possible. Every input (former unspend output) has to be spend entirely*. You could use A as your changeaddress however. This would send the funds back to A. It wouldnt allow you to use the same TX though, since its a new unspend output with different properties.

*everything that is not spend will be considered a minersfee IIRC.

All funds from a single unspent output must be spent entirely in the same transaction (or miners fee), however if there are multiple unspent outputs on a single address, they can be spent separately.

btcguys

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Thank you! This makes sense.

shorena

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No I dont escrow anymore.

Quote from: btcguys on September 03, 2014, 08:33:49 PM

Thank you. This is helpful!

Edit:
What if address is not changed to address C? for example what if address A still has some funds?

Thats not possible. Every input (former unspend output) has to be spend entirely*. You could use A as your changeaddress however. This would send the funds back to A. It wouldnt allow you to use the same TX though, since its a new unspend output with different properties.

*everything that is not spend will be considered a minersfee IIRC.

btcguys

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Thank you. This is helpful!

Edit:
What if address is not changed to address C? for example what if address A still has some funds?

mr_burdell

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Once a transaction sends BTC, it will be sent to addresses B and C where C is the change address. A new transaction would then need to be created and signed by C to send the remaining funds.

The transactions in bitcoin actually send based on unspent outputs from previous transactions instead of just keeping a balance on an address. Once a transaction output is spent, it can never be spent again, and the unspent outputs of the first transaction will be used to create new transactions.

btcguys

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As the title suggests: is it possible to broadcast same signed transaction more than once in Electrum?

For example, let say a person, who has 5 BTC, signs a transaction from offline computer to send one BTC from address A to address B.
Can that same signed transaction be broadcasted 4 more times to send remaining 4 BTC from address A to address B?

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