Can a bitcoin transaction hold an arbitrary string or strings for reference?

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I'm not too sure how I can expand on this.

Let's say that you want to tag the actual transaction with 'Rent' or 'Bill'.

Is there a field where I can insert a string for the other party? Note that this doesn't need to be hashed, it can be clear text.

TheMightyLlama

Posted 2014-03-03T11:36:30.277

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No such support exists in the bitcoin protocol. Use a different receiving address for every transaction to uniquely identify them, if you do this correctly then no external labels are necessary.

user13413

Posted 2014-03-03T11:36:30.277

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This isn't strictly true, is it? For example, you could embed arbitrary data in a custom output script. But it would be more a kludge than an intended feature, and since the transaction would be nonstandard you'd have extra trouble getting it transmitted and confirmed. But people have included data in the block chain this way before. – Nate Eldredge – 2014-04-02T19:16:36.067

we have prunable outputs as of Bitcoin core 0.9 – Mark S. – 2014-04-02T19:29:40.117

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