Will all UTXOs eventually be worth 1 Satoshi?

If I want to spend 0.4BTC and I only have a UTXO for 1.0BTC, I will send 0.4BTC to the seller's address and 0.6BTC to my address. The seller has one UTXO and I have the other.

One UTXO has become two.

As time passes and more transactions occur, the number of UTXOs increases monotonically and the value of each will fall monotonically. (Right?)

If we extrapolate, the value of the individual UTXOs will tend to 1 Satoshi.

Or to ask the question differently, can two UTXOs ever be combined into one UTXO?

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dentaku

Posted 2018-01-10T03:55:27.897

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Answers

Can two UTXOs ever be combined into one UTXO?

Yes, absolutely. Each transaction can have any number of inputs and outputs; it can certainly have fewer outputs than inputs.

Here for example is a transaction with four inputs and one output, leading to a net decrease of three UTXOs.

Nate Eldredge

Posted 2018-01-10T03:55:27.897

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