Post
Topic
Board Beginners & Help
Re: Why did the Bitcoin-QT wallet split a transaction sending bitcoin to myself?
by
C.Steven
on 29/05/2014, 09:55:40 UTC
Back in Dec I sent a small amount (.02 BTC) to two different addresses, a few bucks to a friend and a few to my android wallet.  These were sent from my Bitcoin-QT wallets.

I was looking at these today, picking apart the wallet.dat file and noticed that when those transactions occurred, the blockchain had recorded transactions like the following:

MyAddress  -> FriendsAddress (.02 BTC)
                -> AnReservedAddressInMyBTCWallet (.8283 BTC)

and

MyAddress  -> MyAndroidWallet (.02 BTC)
                -> AnotherReservedAddressInMyBTCWallet (2.43 BTC)


What is up with this?


It is the change. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change

I`m waiting on a bitcoin and its been over 1hr... is it cause I`m using a bad wallet?

It could be due to poor tx propagation, tx fee to low , presence of dust outputs, non-standard tx, etc.
We can take a look at it if you give us the tx id.