QuoteStep 1
Initiating the transaction
When you send bitcoin, you are making a digital transaction,
this transaction involves 3 important things.
1. The Sender's Bitcoin address
2. The Recipient's Bitcoin address
3. The amount of Bitcoin being sent
Step 2
Verifying the Transaction
Before your transaction can be confirmed, it needs to be verified. Bitcoin uses a network of thousands of computers called Nodes to check that you actually have the bitcoin you are trying to send. This is to avoid fraud.
Step 3
Miners approve the transaction
Once verified, miners add it to a new block inside the blockchain. This procedure involves mathematical puzzles to secure the network. Once a block is finish, the transaction will officially confirmed.
Step 4
The Blockchain Records It Forever
After confirmation, your transaction is permanently stored on the Bitcoin Blockchain, it cannot be changed or reversed.
So why is this important? it is safe and visible also cannot be stopped. So now we know how Bitcoin transactions work.
Do you think this system is better than traditional banking? What do you think?
How BTC transaction works? (https://river.com/learn/how-does-a-bitcoin-transaction-work/)
What is Bitcoin mining? (https://www.revolut.com/blog/post/what-is-bitcoin-mining-and-how-does-mining-work/)
What is Blockchain? (https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/blockchain/)
Quote from: naturelover on Sep 18, 2026, 04:27 PMDo you think this system is better than traditional banking? What do you think?
My bank balance is not even $50 still I live a luxurious life with a few business that earn me Bitcoin and provide bread and butter.
Do I pay tax? Yes, I do because I know by country needs it to provide benefits to my people.
Quote from: Jumpman on Sep 19, 2026, 01:40 PMQuote from: naturelover on Sep 18, 2026, 04:27 PMDo you think this system is better than traditional banking? What do you think?
My bank balance is not even $50 still I live a luxurious life with a few business that earn me Bitcoin and provide bread and butter.
Do I pay tax? Yes, I do because I know by country needs it to provide benefits to my people.
Well, at least you have a balance on your bank account isn't right?. And the only thing I have is a Digital banks credit card, though I don't use it either, maybe I can use it for emergencies.
Then we know that banks expect that there will be a tax to be collected from our users because they are regulated business banks under government regulation.
I don't have a credit card. Sometimes when I go to elite restaurants and/or family vacations I use my friends card to get discounts lol
Life is easy when you have friends to support you.
The sender-address, recipient-address and amount description leaves out a useful detail: ordinary Bitcoin transactions spend previous unspent transaction outputs, called UTXOs. Inputs identify those earlier outputs, and one transaction can have several inputs and outputs.
For example, a transaction spending a 100,000-satoshi UTXO could create a 30,000-satoshi output for the recipient and a 69,000-satoshi change output for the spender. The remaining 1,000 satoshis are the fee. These numbers are illustrative, not a suggested fee. The total value of all outputs therefore need not equal the recipient's payment.
Miners assemble transactions into blocks and perform proof of work. Full nodes independently validate transactions and blocks against their consensus rules; including an invalid transaction in a mined block does not make it valid.
The finality wording also needs qualification. Zero confirmations means a transaction is not currently included in the active blockchain. Inclusion gives one confirmation; subsequent blocks add more. More confirmations increase confidence, but chain reorganizations remain possible. "Cannot ever be reversed" is therefore too absolute, even though there is no bank-style chargeback mechanism.
When checking a payment, locate the output matching the expected receiving address and amount, rather than relying on the transaction's total value.
Sources: Transactions (https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/transactions.html), Block Chain (https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/block_chain.html), Verifying Payment (https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/payment_processing.html#verifying-payment).
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