From c1d270aff28e5bfa240335e52a74212e734a5fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clenser Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:46:01 +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 a3267d72..4191f4aa 100644 --- a/ch01_intro.adoc +++ b/ch01_intro.adoc @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ transaction, Alice's wallet will indicate that it is receiving [[confirmations]] .Confirmations **** -At first, ((("bitcoins", "clearing transactions")))((("clearing transactions")))((("transactions", "clearing")))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", 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 <>. **** 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", "sending", startref="bitcoin-send")))((("sending", "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.