Claims ledger / Bitcoin
The whitepaper transaction has 945 (or 946, or 947) outputs.
contradicted
The retrieved transaction has 948 outputs. Counting data-bearing outputs is a different measurement from counting all transaction outputs.
- 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
Counted raw transaction output array; independent output-spend array supplied in the source register.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.714Z · External expert review not claimed.
| Independent check | Observed | Expected |
|---|---|---|
| output count | 948 | 948 |
Inspect source retrievals
- https://mempool.space/api/tx/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:14.262Z · SHA-256 17ef08c16703a0007474a36ead899e17ef14d86d2938ddc1cba7acedda73c173 - https://blockstream.info/api/tx/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713/outspends
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:14.777Z · SHA-256 239c9e96d1332d18ab2d691634e2b6873605ed6635586dcb611f469f21f7d68a
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | The raw transaction has 948 outputs: 945 1-of-3 bare multisig, one 1-of-1, and two pay-to-pubkey-hash (a one-satoshi tip and change); 946 outputs carry data. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | contradicted | The retrieved transaction has 948 outputs. Counting data-bearing outputs is a different measurement from counting all transaction outputs. |
This selected corpus cannot establish the prevalence of inaccurate reporting across all Bitcoin media.