I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by charcircuit on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:49PM (#46196737)

You can find your balance by looking at the UTXO set and seeing if your adress can spend it. There is no need to trace where those UTXO came from.

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by lazide on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:53PM (#46197532)

But every full node does, because it is required to validate the chain.

Near as I can tell, you just don’t know how Bitcoin actually works?

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by charcircuit on Monday December 08, 2025 @06:33PM (#46199190)

I will say it again. When validating the chain all it cares about is that the sum of the output UTXO for a transaction are <= the sum of the input UTXO. All the input UTXO are no longer valid once spent and can be forgotten.

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