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Transaction Metadata

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Transaction metadata is wallet-side context such as contacts, descriptions, tags, and notes attached to a payment or activity item. It helps users understand history and search their activity, but it is not stored on-chain and needs explicit portability if users change wallets.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Design: Activity (article) Primary discussion of wallet activity presentation, recipient fields, and why metadata portability matters.
• Bitcoin Design: Contacts (article) Shows how wallets attach names, reusable payment endpoints, and contextual meaning to transactions without confusing that data for on-chain state.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Broad technical reference for wallet behavior, transaction history, and the underlying payment model that this metadata decorates.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Pseudonymity (Not Anonymity)
• UTXO and Output Labeling

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• None

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