From a40d5456f3cd2a5181f35ab42565556be09b93de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Harding" Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2023 15:21:11 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] CH02: remove some more unnecessary specific values Will make updating the text in the future easier. --- ch02.asciidoc | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/ch02.asciidoc b/ch02.asciidoc index 6cdd0da0..0b884b3f 100644 --- a/ch02.asciidoc +++ b/ch02.asciidoc @@ -435,9 +435,9 @@ output. Alice will therefore "encumber" the output value with a demand for a signature from Bob. This transaction will also include a second output, because Alice's -funds are in the form of a 0.10 BTC output, too much money for the 0.015 -BTC podcast. Alice will need 0.085 BTC in change. Alice's change -payment is created by Alice's wallet as an output in the very same +funds are contain more money than the cost of the +podcast. Alice's change +output is created in the very same transaction as the payment to Bob. Essentially, Alice's wallet breaks her funds into two payments: one to Bob and one back to herself. She can then use (spend) the change output in a subsequent transaction. @@ -445,11 +445,7 @@ then use (spend) the change output in a subsequent transaction. Finally, for the transaction to be processed by the network in a timely fashion, Alice's wallet application will add a small fee. This is not explicit in the transaction; it is implied by the difference between -inputs and outputs. If instead of taking 0.085 in change, Alice creates -only 0.0845 as the second output, there will be 0.0005 BTC (half a -millibitcoin) left over. The input's 0.10 BTC is not fully spent with -the two outputs, because they will add up to less than 0.10. The -resulting difference is the _transaction fee_ that is collected by the +inputs and outputs. This _transaction fee_ is collected by the miner as a fee for validating and including the transaction in a block to be recorded on the blockchain. @@ -670,8 +666,8 @@ thereby making it more and more trusted by the network. ((("genesis block")))((("blocks", "genesis block")))((("blockchain (the)", "genesis block")))In the diagram in <>, we can -see block #277316, which contains Alice's transaction. Below it are -277,316 blocks (including block #0), linked to each other in a chain of +see block the block which contains Alice's transaction. Below it are +hundreds of thousands of blocks, linked to each other in a chain of blocks (blockchain) all the way back to block #0, known as the _genesis block_. Over time, as the "height" in blocks increases, so does the computation difficulty for each block and the chain as a whole. The @@ -685,7 +681,7 @@ the process of mining and the way it builds trust in more detail in startref="MACover02"))) [[block-alice1]] -.Alice's transaction included in block #277316 +.Alice's transaction included in a block image::images/mbc2_0209.png["Alice's transaction included in a block"] === Spending the Transaction