Claims ledger / Bitcoin
The Bitcoin blockchain stores account balances, and coins "move between addresses".
overstated
Bitcoin transaction records create outputs and consume previous outpoints. An address balance is an indexer or wallet aggregation, not an account-balance field in the transaction format.
- Attribution
- recurring-misconception
- Publisher
- No original publisher established
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- A recurring misconception, not a quotation attributed to a named publisher.
- Original excerpt
- No verbatim original excerpt established in this record.
Verification record
Automated author inspected the primary-source passage, separately from source collection; matching text and content hash are enforced on rebuild.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.739Z · External expert review not claimed.
Primary passages checked
class CTxOut { public: CAmount nValue; CScript scriptPubKey;
Primary source · normalized text offset 4295
Inspect source retrievals
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/128456b62d5e38abea031f97f823d5b28aef9357/src/primitives/transaction.h
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:56.343Z · SHA-256 13b1eee877a7c42452f809fb665f1ea33fd7c329f05bb0c1692f92b4c39d906c - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/128456b62d5e38abea031f97f823d5b28aef9357/src/consensus/tx_verify.cpp
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:56.498Z · SHA-256 45de31c846d87b202b46f1e314cbd07869c0b3e598cdc7b18342e2fe24de3fc0
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | No protocol-level balance exists; nodes track unspent transaction outputs, wallets sum them for display, and "movement between addresses" is an interpretation of the transaction graph. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | overstated | Bitcoin transaction records create outputs and consume previous outpoints. An address balance is an indexer or wallet aggregation, not an account-balance field in the transaction format. |
This selected corpus cannot establish the prevalence of inaccurate reporting across all Bitcoin media.