So happy, I almost jumped out of my chair yesterday when I figured out how to look at the raw data of a #Bitcoin UTXO and 'read', or decipher, the value of the transaction in sats.
And yes, I can confirm, it is denominated in sats.
Discussion
That's pretty cool!
Fancy doing a "for dummies" to explain slowly to anyone who wants to learn? 😊
Use sparrow wallet to see raw transaction data.
Identify an out and identify the value of the output
Sparrow helps with this, as does this:
https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/transactions.html
In the example above, the output value is highlighted in black (that's the number of sats)
it's written in reverse hexadecimal: 703e380000000000
first reverse the order, here: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/swapendian/?hexadecimal
you get: 0000000000383e70
Then convert from hexadecimal, to decimal here: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-decimal.html
3686000 sats
divided by 100 000 000 = 0.03686 BTC