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You build a message, then you sign it
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You build a message, then you sign it
A live send is not a button that “moves coins.” It is a message: from these coins (or this account), pay that address, pay this fee, here is a or a chosen coin, here is the signature. The network checks the signature against the lock. If it matches and the coins are unspent, the message may sit in a page.
Next time you open this lesson
We’ll open this slide when you come back. This device remembers it.
Keys move the deck. N next, P previous. Ours. Not PowerPoint.
Swipe the deck. Hold Previous for slide one. A vertical swipe still scrolls the page.
A live send is not a button that “moves coins.” It is a message: from these coins (or this account), pay that address, pay this fee, here is a or a chosen coin, here is the signature. The network checks the signature against the lock. If it matches and the coins are unspent, the message may sit in a page.
Bitcoin’s usual picture is UTXO: leftover coins from earlier payments, like change on a counter. You pick which leftovers to spend. Ethereum’s usual picture is an account with a balance and a . Two notebooks. Two ways to get a typo wrong. Neither has a recall button on the chain.
A classroom paper at skips this whole machine. That is on purpose so the lesson on the desk can stay about size. A live network will not skip it.
We will not build, sign, or broadcast a send for you. There is no connect . If a page asks you to “simulate a classroom send” with a seed, it is not us. Close it.
See it on the board: Bitcoin
Say it back below. Then the next lesson opens. If you leave the page, we will ask to save your spot.
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