<p>No, you cannot assume this.</p>

<p>There are a number of ways in which individual inputs may belong to different wallets/owners. For example:</p>

<ul>
<li>They could come from a hosted wallet or exchange, where inputs may span coins deposited by thousands of individual users, and selected for a transaction with no particular relation to the user making that transaction</li>
<li>Coinjoin techniques allow multiple individual transactions from any number of actors to be combined into a single large transaction, mixing all of the individual inputs and outputs</li>
</ul>

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Raghav Sood
<p>That was assumption mentioned in Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto, but, as mentioned above, is not true.</p>

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Kristaps Kaupe
<h1>can addresses of input of a single tx be always considered as belonging to same account?</h1>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/xBOvM.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/xBOvM.png" alt="sample transaction"></a></p>

<p>Above is a sample transaction on bitcoin.
Here, input addresses are </p>

<pre><code>3P2hJg8iRSBExAjd9yQGaazCLPFLeGB3hU (0.88970519 BTC - Output)
35jRUYxAwkqFhGyiGvS6Q4Aqxgcru7m9DM (0.43636859 BTC - Output)
</code></pre>

<p>My question is, since these two addresses are in a single tx, can they be considered as coming from same account (or wallet)?</p>

<p>The reason why I ask is I want to extract account-like info because bitcoin world actually has no account concept.</p>

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Can addresses used in a single tx be assumed to be from the same wallet?
dingyo777
# Can addresses used in a single tx be assumed to be from the same wallet?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-30)

# can addresses of input of a single tx be always considered as belonging to same account?

[![sample transaction](https://i.sstatic.net/xBOvM.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/xBOvM.png)

Above is a sample transaction on bitcoin.
Here, input addresses are

```
3P2hJg8iRSBExAjd9yQGaazCLPFLeGB3hU (0.88970519 BTC - Output)
35jRUYxAwkqFhGyiGvS6Q4Aqxgcru7m9DM (0.43636859 BTC - Output)

```

My question is, since these two addresses are in a single tx, can they be considered as coming from same account (or wallet)?

The reason why I ask is I want to extract account-like info because bitcoin world actually has no account concept.

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-09-30. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

No, you cannot assume this.

There are a number of ways in which individual inputs may belong to different wallets/owners. For example:

* They could come from a hosted wallet or exchange, where inputs may span coins deposited by thousands of individual users, and selected for a transaction with no particular relation to the user making that transaction
* Coinjoin techniques allow multiple individual transactions from any number of actors to be combined into a single large transaction, mixing all of the individual inputs and outputs


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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-10-02. Score: 0

That was assumption mentioned in Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto, but, as mentioned above, is not true.


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