diff --git a/ch06.asciidoc b/ch06.asciidoc index 38f53922..09706b1c 100644 --- a/ch06.asciidoc +++ b/ch06.asciidoc @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The block explorer application shows a transaction from Alice's "address" to Bob [[transactions_behind_the_scenes]] ==== Transactions—Behind the Scenes -Behind the scenes, an actual transaction looks very different from a transaction provided by a typical block explorer. In fact, most of the high-level constructs we see in the various bitcoin application user interfaces _do not actually exist_ in the bitcoin system. +((("transactions", "behind the scenes details of")))Behind the scenes, an actual transaction looks very different from a transaction provided by a typical block explorer. In fact, most of the high-level constructs we see in the various bitcoin application user interfaces _do not actually exist_ in the bitcoin system. We can use Bitcoin Core's command-line interface (+getrawtransaction+ and +decoderawtransaction+) to retrieve Alice's "raw" transaction, decode it, and see what it contains. The result looks like this: