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Finally, another transaction form that is seen often on the bitcoin ledger is a transaction that distributes one input to multiple outputs representing multiple recipients. This type of transaction is sometimes used by commercial entities to distribute funds, such as when processing payroll payments to multiple employees.
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.Transaction Distributing Funds
image::images/Bitcoin Transaction Structure - Distribution.png["Distributing Transaction"]
=== Transaction Data Structure
A transaction, in bitcoin terminology, also refers to the signed data structure that contains a series of inputs and outputs transferring value, as encoded in the blockchain or propagating on the bitcoin network. In the blockchain, a transaction is stored as a variable-lenght data structure, that contains an array of _transaction inputs_ and an array of _transaction outputs_.

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