Topic: Electrum returns me transaction error on send - page 2. (Read 378 times)

Yes... currently it's 546 sats. The vast majority of nodes will reject any transaction that creates an output that is less than this amount. That includes "change" outputs!


Yes, have a look under "Tools -> Sign/verify Message"... Note that this doesn't involve creating or sending a transaction. It's just digitally signing a given message with a given address.

Kind of. You are trying to move 0.001mBTC, with a fee of 0.04mBTC. Total transaction will move 0.00552mBTC, and 0.00057mBTC will be left in the wallet. Seeing how many satoshis you have to pay in fees, that remaining 0.00057mBTC will never be able to be used; and if I don't remember it wrong,g that is the "dust".


Signing a message and using a tag are 2 complete different things. You can sign a message, mostly to verify that an address is yours. You then have to provide the person that will verify it with the message, the signature, and the address. It's not like you sign a message and everyone can see it (they can, if you provide the already mentioned things)

yes. It's creating an output with a value that's to low. A node could potentially change the default value, but i think it used to be around ~500 sats. Any transaction creating an unspent output smaller than this value would be rejected by nodes having the default configuration.

Signing messages, sure... But i think you're getting a bit confused about some key concepts here.

The description you're entering in your wallet is basically just a piece of text that will be saved in YOUR wallet file. It does not end up in any transaction that's being generated. It is for your reference only. Even if you delete your wallet and restore it from the seed, those pieces of text will be gone.

Signing a message is using your private key and a piece of text as an input, and creating a signature as output. Using the address belonging to the private key, any individual can verify the signature, but they cannot create a signature with the address alone.

If you want data to be stored in the blockchain, i'd probably point you here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/OP_RETURN

There are also block explorers that allow you to enter metadata for an address/transaction/... This metadata is stored in the (relational) database belonging to the block explorer. It is also not stored into the blockchain, it's just private data belonging to the explorer, data they can show, hide, delete, update,...

Wait, what dust outputs means? Too few bitcoins?


Oh, no I didn't know that. Can't you sign messages with wallets?

Nodes have a rule against creating dust outputs, you're breaking it.

You know the Description is stored in your wallet only, right? Nobody else will ever see the text "are you alive", it is not broadcasted, it is not included into any blocks, it will never be shown to anybody (well, it's shown to us in the screenshot you created, but that's simply because you created a screenshot)

You forgot to read third line from popups. "Transaction couldn't broadcasted due to dust outputs."

You may read here what is the bitcoin dust?

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Edit,
You may read from below quote.

I am quite sure you are trying to ensure that everything working fine by broadcast a small transaction. So you have to increase your output value, I don't know exactly but you may try several times.

I would like to send 1 cent to an address and pay 452 satoshi as a fee but it doesn't let me.

This is the error:



Note that I have changed servers several times but it's still the same...