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Where are unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) stored?

Where are unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) stored?

Article - 10 mins

by Crypto Champ

| Bitcoin Basics |

Published June 10, 2019

Whenever someone sends an amount of bitcoin, one or more locked unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) are unlocked and used as the inputs for the bitcoin transaction. The output(s) of the bitcoin transaction are newly created locked UTXOs, which in turn can be used as future transaction inputs by the new owner (i.e. the person holding the private key associated with ...

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