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For the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/ee1658bb4d0de80a91d2e0005218d4cfab7c302a352458bd6afb6376b47fbf81 it looks like there are multiple inputs with different values for the same address. I thought an address only has one value at any given time?
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What's happening in this transaction is that the same address (1AhN6rPdrMuKBGFDKR1k9A8SCLYaNgXhty) is claiming different outputs. You can see which output it's claiming by clicking on the "Output" link available for each input.
This is a common scenario where a person has their coins spread across several addresses.
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Bitcoin balances are associated with addresses, but they are packaged in "outputs".
A new transaction output is created for every address that a transaction sends money to. When several payments are sent to the same address, this address can accumulate several outputs.
When you spend bitcoins your transaction draws on previous transactions' outputs. Outputs that fund a transaction are used up completely. This is why your client sends change to yourself for whatever amount you didn't want to spend.
This means that the same address could appear more than once on the funding side, or if someone is being creative also on the receiving side.
Can you be more specific? That transaction just looks like 1 address in, 2 addresses out; nothing out of the ordinary. – NReilingh – 2014-02-03T06:52:08.710
There are multiple rows of the same address. Normally I have only seen any given input address appear once. I realize there is only one address. That wasn't my question. The question is about different bitcoin values for the same input address – Tyler Gillies – 2014-02-03T08:12:12.030