<p>Your total bitcoin balance consists of the combined total of several addresses. Your wallet contains one, some or many addresses, all of which may have bitcoins on them.</p>

<p>So I think that when inspecting your wallet with a tool like pywallet, you will find that both A and C are there.</p>

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Willem Hengeveld
<p>I realized a few days back, that if I send some bitcoins to someone, then it shows in blockchain an extra amount sent to my own wallet. So if I send 0.5 BTC from wallet A to B then blockchain shows</p>

<pre><code>A--&gt; B 0.5
A--&gt;A  1  (basically sending it to my wallet as well.)
</code></pre>

<p>Today I noticed a different wallet address during a transaction. So it was like</p>

<pre><code>A--&gt; B 0.2
A--&gt; C 0.5
</code></pre>

<p>Checking address C on blockchain, it gets sent back to A in some time. But since this morning, the bitcoins haven't come back to A. If I open my wallet on multibit, it shows the correct balance. However on blockchain, it's 0.5 less. The funds from C have not been sent back to A, but it shows on multibit the right balance in A.</p>

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See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change.
Meni Rosenfeld
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Bitcoins being sent to another addres during a transaction
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# Bitcoins being sent to another addres during a transaction

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-12)

I realized a few days back, that if I send some bitcoins to someone, then it shows in blockchain an extra amount sent to my own wallet. So if I send 0.5 BTC from wallet A to B then blockchain shows

```
A--> B 0.5
A-->A  1  (basically sending it to my wallet as well.)

```

Today I noticed a different wallet address during a transaction. So it was like

```
A--> B 0.2
A--> C 0.5

```

Checking address C on blockchain, it gets sent back to A in some time. But since this morning, the bitcoins haven't come back to A. If I open my wallet on multibit, it shows the correct balance. However on blockchain, it's 0.5 less. The funds from C have not been sent back to A, but it shows on multibit the right balance in A.

**Tags:** transactions

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-07-12. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Your total bitcoin balance consists of the combined total of several addresses. Your wallet contains one, some or many addresses, all of which may have bitcoins on them.

So I think that when inspecting your wallet with a tool like pywallet, you will find that both A and C are there.


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