Exercise 6 · 15 min

How Transactions Get Verified

Time: 20 to 25 minutes · You'll need: paper and a calculator · Builds on: Lesson 6

Warm-up

Check yourself

Maya has one unspent output worth 0.30 BTC. She signs a transaction that pays 0.25 BTC and leaves nothing else. What happens to the other 0.05 BTC?

Check yourself

Two valid-looking transactions spend the same unspent output. What does a node do?

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