<p>Say I owe you $8, but all I have is a $10 bill. I'll make a transaction that spends my $10 bill and delivers $8 to you and returns $2 to me. The extra 0.02364322 LTC is Coinbase's change, just as the extra $2 is my change.</p>

<p>Coinbase didn't happen to have precisely 0.55177632 LTC in an unspent transaction output, they had 0.5734121 LTC. So they returned some change to themselves.</p>

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<p>Newbie here trying to understand how an amount sent from coinbase gets put onto the block at a different value.</p>

<p>In this transaction, I sent 0.55076816 LTC to a wallet. </p>

<ul>
<li>There’s a network fee of 0.00100816 which means I receive 0.54976.</li>
</ul>

<p>But what I don’t understand is the figure 0.57441138 on the right hand <a href="https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/tx/70dc018e99d5223ce01901f4fcef81e4f1930bcd1c0126d9d5631d724d0d86f6/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BlockCypher screen</a>.</p>

<p>Where did the extra 0.02364322 LTC (0.57441138-0.55076816) come from that I didn't send from Coinbase???</p>

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Trying to reconcile the amount sent versus amount transacted
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# Trying to reconcile the amount sent versus amount transacted

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-01)

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Newbie here trying to understand how an amount sent from coinbase gets put onto the block at a different value.

In this transaction, I sent 0.55076816 LTC to a wallet.

* There’s a network fee of 0.00100816 which means I receive 0.54976.

But what I don’t understand is the figure 0.57441138 on the right hand [BlockCypher screen](https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/tx/70dc018e99d5223ce01901f4fcef81e4f1930bcd1c0126d9d5631d724d0d86f6/).

Where did the extra 0.02364322 LTC (0.57441138-0.55076816) come from that I didn't send from Coinbase???

**Tags:** transactions, transaction-fees


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-01. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Say I owe you $8, but all I have is a $10 bill. I'll make a transaction that spends my $10 bill and delivers $8 to you and returns $2 to me. The extra 0.02364322 LTC is Coinbase's change, just as the extra $2 is my change.

Coinbase didn't happen to have precisely 0.55177632 LTC in an unspent transaction output, they had 0.5734121 LTC. So they returned some change to themselves.


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