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<p>I then went on the blockchain explorer to view the transaction and I am seeing an input that is not my address</p>
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<p>I am not familiar with this particular site, but this is not unexpected. When custodial services hold user funds, they don't necessarily keep the funds in a separate wallet per user. Instead, they have one giant wallet with all the user's funds, and a database to keep track of how much of it is owed to each user. For example, this could be a viable scenario:</p>
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<li>User U wants to make a deposit, so the service creates address A, stores it in the database as &quot;A is receive addr for U&quot;, and hands A to the user on the website.</li>
<li>User U deposits 1 BTC on A. These funds are now <em>controlled</em> by the service, but it credits U with 1 BTC.</li>
<li>User V does the same; the service creates address B, stores it in the database, and hands it to V on the site.</li>
<li>User V deposits 10 BTC on B. The service now controls 11 BTC. The service credits V with 10 BTC in its database.</li>
<li>Now V wants to withdraw 1 BTC to address C. The service looks at its entire wallets, which contains a UTXO worth 1 BTC and a UTXO worth 10 BTC. It decides that it is most economical to use the 1 BTC when withdrawing, and does so - despite the fact that this 1 BTC UTXO is actually the result of a payment crediting another user.</li>
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<p>When V now looks at the blockchain, they will observe a transaction that seems to come &quot;from&quot; address A, which is unknown to V. This is misleading. The general advice is not to pay attention to &quot;from&quot; addresses, as they have very little meaning except to the wallet that actually creates the transaction. It is also none of V's concern - they get the funds, and that's what matters.</p>
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<p>as well as various outputs which include my address as well as other addresses that do not belong to me.</p>
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<p>This too, is expected. Transactions are cheaper when they batch multiple payments together. The website may have queued up your request for a withdrawal for a short period of time, during which other users also made withdrawals. It then constructed a single transaction that performs all these withdrawals in one go, saving fees and wallet fragmentation for the service. One of the outputs may also be &quot;change&quot; going back to a new address belonging to the service, if the input amounts do not exactly cover the total amount intended to be withdrawn.</p>

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Pieter Wuille
<p>In an effort to save on transaction size (and thus transaction fees), Bitcoin exchanges will &quot;batch&quot; multiple withdrawals into a single transaction. If you see a lot of other outputs on your withdrawal from an exchange, it is likely that most of these are the withdrawals of other users that have been batched together with your withdrawal, as well as outputs to send any remaining change back to the exchange's hot wallet.</p>

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ieatpizza
<p>So I sent BTC from my Crypto.com wallet to my Coinbase wallet.
I then went on the blockchain explorer to view the transaction and I am seeing an input that is not my address and various outputs which include my address as well as other addresses that do not belong to me.
The unknown addresses also have different amounts too.
why am I seeing various outputs with different addresses and amounts?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>

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Multiple outputs and different amounts on blockchain explorer when I sent BTC from Crypto.com to Coinbase
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# Multiple outputs and different amounts on blockchain explorer when I sent BTC from Crypto.com to Coinbase

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-02-05)

So I sent BTC from my Crypto.com wallet to my Coinbase wallet.
I then went on the blockchain explorer to view the transaction and I am seeing an input that is not my address and various outputs which include my address as well as other addresses that do not belong to me.
The unknown addresses also have different amounts too.
why am I seeing various outputs with different addresses and amounts?

Thank you!

**Tags:** exchanges, payment-batching


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-02-05. Score: 1

> I then went on the blockchain explorer to view the transaction and I am seeing an input that is not my address

I am not familiar with this particular site, but this is not unexpected. When custodial services hold user funds, they don't necessarily keep the funds in a separate wallet per user. Instead, they have one giant wallet with all the user's funds, and a database to keep track of how much of it is owed to each user. For example, this could be a viable scenario:

* User U wants to make a deposit, so the service creates address A, stores it in the database as "A is receive addr for U", and hands A to the user on the website.
* User U deposits 1 BTC on A. These funds are now *controlled* by the service, but it credits U with 1 BTC.
* User V does the same; the service creates address B, stores it in the database, and hands it to V on the site.
* User V deposits 10 BTC on B. The service now controls 11 BTC. The service credits V with 10 BTC in its database.
* Now V wants to withdraw 1 BTC to address C. The service looks at its entire wallets, which contains a UTXO worth 1 BTC and a UTXO worth 10 BTC. It decides that it is most economical to use the 1 BTC when withdrawing, and does so - despite the fact that this 1 BTC UTXO is actually the result of a payment crediting another user.

When V now looks at the blockchain, they will observe a transaction that seems to come "from" address A, which is unknown to V. This is misleading. The general advice is not to pay attention to "from" addresses, as they have very little meaning except to the wallet that actually creates the transaction. It is also none of V's concern - they get the funds, and that's what matters.

> as well as various outputs which include my address as well as other addresses that do not belong to me.

This too, is expected. Transactions are cheaper when they batch multiple payments together. The website may have queued up your request for a withdrawal for a short period of time, during which other users also made withdrawals. It then constructed a single transaction that performs all these withdrawals in one go, saving fees and wallet fragmentation for the service. One of the outputs may also be "change" going back to a new address belonging to the service, if the input amounts do not exactly cover the total amount intended to be withdrawn.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-02-05. Score: 0

In an effort to save on transaction size (and thus transaction fees), Bitcoin exchanges will "batch" multiple withdrawals into a single transaction. If you see a lot of other outputs on your withdrawal from an exchange, it is likely that most of these are the withdrawals of other users that have been batched together with your withdrawal, as well as outputs to send any remaining change back to the exchange's hot wallet.


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