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Board Beginners & Help
Re: How do I read the blockchain?
by
xht
on 26/08/2016, 22:12:15 UTC
So I did a nice trade today and received my first decently sized chunk of BTC (compared to the faucets I've usually been doing) for around $200 BTC and when I clicked the link to verify the transaction on the blockchain, it seems to be showing another transaction apart from mine:

https://blockchain.info/tx/f1478eda31c08d76b4f6daf0d7bdda64eba09556d0f4ca096ea09c3c6f1283e2

Can you tell me... is this from the perspective of the sender and are both transactions from the same sender? What does the /tx/ in the URL stand for? Transaction? I usually see the /address/ URL and I'm not used to this one. Also, when it reads "unspent" I'm assuming that the blockchain has tracked that I have not spent the BTC yet. Is there a way to further track which address the money was sent to once I spend it? What if I spend small portions of it... how does that get tracked?
You are referring to, where you can be tracked from ip if you are using an online wallet that will be listed is the ip of the online wallet service but I believe they do have other data to track your ip but it was not published.