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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Splitting one bitcoin between two people
by
merelcoin
on 20/04/2016, 11:35:47 UTC
I am quite new to Bitcoins. I have a doubt.

Lets say I person A, have 1 Bitcoin with me, I want to send .5 BTC to person B and .5 BTC to person C in a single transaction. Is it possible to do within one single transaction ?

Later on if Person C sends the same Bitcoin to Person B, will it be possible for person B to verify that, the Bitcoin which it now received from Person B and the one which it already received from Person A, were from the same source ?


Yes, you can create multiple outputs*. Since all transactions are recorded on the blockchain, person B can verify where the 0.5BTC came from.

*Depending on the wallet software you use... some wallet softwares make this hard/impossible to do, other wallet software makes this really easy... But theoretically, this is normal behaviour... In fact, when you have 1 BTC and only send 0.5BTC to somebody, most (if not all) wallets will create 2 outputs: 0.5BTC to the receiver, ~0.4999 BTC back to you (either a change address, or your main address) and a (very small) fee