diff --git a/ch06.asciidoc b/ch06.asciidoc index 42dd119b..41094a60 100644 --- a/ch06.asciidoc +++ b/ch06.asciidoc @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ The topic of locking and unlocking UTXO will be discussed later, in <>. +((("transactions", "outputs and inputs", "structure of")))((("outputs and inputs", "structure of")))((("serialization")))When transactions are transmitted over the network or exchanged between applications, they are _serialized_. Serialization is the process of converting the internal representation of a data structure into a format that can be transmitted one byte at a time, also known as a byte-stream. Serialization is most commonly used for encoding data structures for transmission over a network or for storage in a file. The serialization format of a transaction output is shown in <>. [[tx_out_structure]] .Transaction output serialization