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Re: Identifying Transactions and Making it Clear (dreaming?)
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20kevin20
on 28/07/2020, 07:06:44 UTC
The main question is: Is that possible to filter the input/outputs and make it clear (outside of a wallet) how much was paid to a certain address? Maybe the input is not that important, as longs as we can show the amount and the output (being the destination wallet - not the change).
The only way you may be able to achieve this without compromising privacy or transparency is by prioritizing certain addresses on the explorer. That pushes new questions to the front, such as: if the tx has 10 inputs and 100 outputs, how does the explorer know which input and which output to prioritize?

A tx with prioritized inputs and outputs could be shown with a little "Part of a more complex transaction. Click here for more", so that the visitor has the option to see it in detail as well.

But overall, I personally think this is a block explorer newcomers would not use at all anyway - in order to prioritize an input/output, you have to filter addresses. One way would be by having an open source non-custodial wallet push all your existing addresses to the block explorer's servers - but then it becomes a huge security compromise. If all your addresses are pushed to a server, it means the server will know they're most likely all related one way or another.