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I think you meant discrete rather than discreet, although that would be a clever pun.
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When we say that a user's wallet has "received" bitcoin, what we mean is that the wallet has detected an unspent transaction output (UTXO) which can be spent with one of the keys controlled by that wallet. Thus, a user's bitcoin "balance" is the sum of all UTXO that user's wallet can spend and which may be scattered amongst hundreds of transactions and hundreds of blocks. The concept of a balance is created by the wallet application. The wallet calculates the user's balance by scanning the blockchain and aggregating the value of any UTXO that the wallet can spend with the keys it controls. Today, all wallets maintain a database or use a database service to store a quick reference set of all the UTXO they can spend with the keys they control.
A transaction output can have an arbitrary value denominated as a multiple of((("satoshis"))) satoshis. Just like dollars can be divided down to two decimal places as cents, bitcoin can be divided down to eight decimal places as satoshis. Although an output can have any arbitrary value, once created it is indivisible. This is an important characteristic of outputs that needs to be emphasized: outputs are *discreet* and *indivisible* units of value, denominated in satoshis. An unspent output can only be consumed in its entirety by a transaction.
A transaction output can have an arbitrary value denominated as a multiple of((("satoshis"))) satoshis. Just like dollars can be divided down to two decimal places as cents, bitcoin can be divided down to eight decimal places as satoshis. Although an output can have any arbitrary value, once created it is indivisible. This is an important characteristic of outputs that needs to be emphasized: outputs are *discrete* and *indivisible* units of value, denominated in satoshis. An unspent output can only be consumed in its entirety by a transaction.
If an unspent transaction output is larger than the desired value of a transaction, it must still be consumed in its entirety and change must be generated in the transaction. ((("change, making")))In other words, if you have a UTXO worth 20 bitcoin and want to pay only 1 bitcoin, your transaction must consume the entire 20-bitcoin UTXO and produce two outputs: one paying 1 bitcoin to your desired recipient and another paying 19 bitcoin in change back to your wallet. As a result of the indivisible nature of transaction outputs, most bitcoin transactions will have to generate change.