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Bitcoin notes

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Date: 2021-06-06
Tags: bitcoin notes

When buying a coffee, a person, the Buyer, sends a Transaction template to the Seller.

The template contains:

  • line items
    • quantity
    • price
  • total price
  • payment source

This may also contain Buyer information, such as name.


A bitcoin transaction can requires one or more inputs, called UTXOs. A bitcoin transaction outputs one or more UTXOs.

UTXO stands for "Unspent Transaction Output"


In a wallet, a user can:

  • receive funds
  • send funds to a TXID
    • send specific funds by selecting specific UTXOs

A user creates a wallet. As part of the wallet creation process, the user creates a mneumonic, or 12-word phrase that can be used to obtain the private/public key pair.



BIP 270 is a bitcoin protocol to pay invoices.

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