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Title: Difference between "VIRTUAL" and "DETAILS" tag in the wallet entries?
Post by: Brent.Allsop on February 14, 2015, 08:48:58 pm

What is the difference between the entries tagged with "VIRTUAL" and "DETAILS" in the wallet?

Brent Allsop

Title: Re: Difference between "VIRTUAL" and "DETAILS" tag in the wallet entries?
Post by: pc on February 14, 2015, 09:45:25 pm

I suppose "details" is in the GUI? No idea.

A virtual transaction is a transaction that does not exist in the blockchain. For example, when the market matches a BID with an ASK, the resulting transfer of assets between the trading parties is put into the database as a virtual transaction. (Because the market operates in a completely deterministic way, every client will handle this BID/ASK match in the same way and create the same virtual transaction for this. Putting this into the actual blockchain would be redundant and only lead to bloat.)

Title: Re: Difference between "VIRTUAL" and "DETAILS" tag in the wallet entries?
Post by: xeroc on February 15, 2015, 09:07:01 am

Quote from: pc on February 14, 2015, 09:45:25 pm

I suppose "details" is in the GUI? No idea.

A virtual transaction is a transaction that does not exist in the blockchain. For example, when the market matches a BID with an ASK, the resulting transfer of assets between the trading parties is put into the database as a virtual transaction. (Because the market operates in a completely deterministic way, every client will handle this BID/ASK match in the same way and create the same virtual transaction for this. Putting this into the actual blockchain would be redundant and only lead to bloat.)

That's my understanding too and matched what I see in my interface