<p>Lets say an address has 150 unspent BTC, and I want to transfer 50 BTC to someone else, can I send the remainder (100 BTC) back to the original address? Is this impossible, a bad idea or something that isn't done very often for some other reason?</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2014-08-03T18:20:16.197Z
possible duplicate: [Can a Bitcoin transaction have the same address for input and output?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/12746/5406)
Murch
CC BY-SA 3.0
2014-08-03T21:31:05.560Z
@Murch, definitely a duplicate, but for some reason this question has produced a better answer.
Samuel Edwin Ward
<protocol>
When spending a fraction of the coins in an address, can I send the remainder back to the same address?
Marius
# When spending a fraction of the coins in an address, can I send the remainder back to the same address?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-03)

Lets say an address has 150 unspent BTC, and I want to transfer 50 BTC to someone else, can I send the remainder (100 BTC) back to the original address? Is this impossible, a bad idea or something that isn't done very often for some other reason?

**Tags:** protocol

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: possible duplicate: [Can a Bitcoin transaction have the same address for input and output?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/12746/5406)  
> **username_2**: @username_1, definitely a duplicate, but for some reason this question has produced a better answer.  

---

## 0 answers

