Summary


Browse to Recipe for creating and signing a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction #2 and follow the recipe.

You will need access to various services, which are listed here: Transaction services




Contents


- Summary
- Contents
- Background
- More information




Background


Edgecase's working definition of a nonstandard transaction:
- It has at least one input and at least one output.
- At least one input or output address is not a standard Pay-To-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) address.

Nonstandard Pay-To-Script-Hash (P2SH) addresses begin with the character '3'. Example P2SH address:
The address


Example nonstandard Bitcoin transaction:







More information


Projects that involved the creation and signing of a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction:

- Browse to the article Creating and signing a standard raw Bitcoin transaction. In this project, a nonstandard transaction was created that transferred bitcoin back from a standard address to a P2SH receiving address at a Bitcoin exchange.

- Browse to the article Creating and signing a standard raw Bitcoin transaction: Iteration #2. In this project, a nonstandard transaction was created that transferred bitcoin back from a standard address to a P2SH receiving address at a Bitcoin exchange.

- Browse to the article Using a transaction to validate a Bitcoin address. In this project, a nonstandard transaction was created that transferred bitcoin back from a standard address to a P2SH receiving address at a Bitcoin exchange.

- Browse to the article Storing bitcoin on an offline Raspberry Pi. In this project, four nonstandard transactions were created that transferred bitcoin back from a standard address to a P2SH receiving address at a Bitcoin exchange. Two of these transactions were mined. Of the remaining two, one had a low fee and the other was a double-spend attempt.