Author Topic: Difference between "VIRTUAL" and "DETAILS" tag in the wallet entries?  (Read 1327 times)

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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

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

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