From 5813b0b6392deba4ab05df6f1714c1b186da47f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clenser Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:50:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited ch01_intro.adoc with Atlas code editor --- ch01_intro.adoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch01_intro.adoc b/ch01_intro.adoc index 83bd42a2..2317f632 100644 --- a/ch01_intro.adoc +++ b/ch01_intro.adoc @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ transaction, Alice's wallet will indicate that it is receiving [[confirmations]] .Confirmations **** -At first, ((("bitcoins", "clearing transactions")))((("clearing transactions")))((("transactions", "clearing")))((("confirmations", see="clearing transactions")))Alice's address will show the transaction from Joe as "Unconfirmed." This means that the transaction has been propagated to the network but has not yet been recorded in the Bitcoin transaction journal, known as the blockchain. To be confirmed, a transaction must be included in a block and added to the blockchain, which happens every 10 minutes, on average. In traditional financial terms this is known as _clearing_. For more details on propagation, validation, and clearing (confirmation) of bitcoin transactions, see <>. +At first, ((("bitcoins", "clearing transactions")))((("clearing transactions")))((("transactions", "clearing")))((("confirmations")))Alice's address will show the transaction from Joe as "Unconfirmed." This means that the transaction has been propagated to the network but has not yet been recorded in the Bitcoin transaction journal, known as the blockchain. To be confirmed, a transaction must be included in a block and added to the blockchain, which happens every 10 minutes, on average. In traditional financial terms this is known as _clearing_. For more details on propagation, validation, and clearing (confirmation) of bitcoin transactions, see <>. **** Alice is now the proud owner of 0.001 BTC that she can spend. Over the next few days, Alice buys more bitcoin using an ATM and((("bitcoins", "spending", startref="bitcoin-send")))((("spending bitcoins", startref="send-bitcoin")))((("bitcoins", "receiving", startref="bitcoin-receive")))((("receiving bitcoins", startref="receive-bitcoin"))) an exchange. In the next chapter we will look at her first purchase with Bitcoin, and examine the underlying transaction and propagation technologies in more detail.