<p>It looks like a hex encoding of the binary encoding that Bitcoin uses. You could also get this through the <code>getrawtransaction</code> Bitcoin RPC call, if you have <code>txindex=1</code> enabled.</p>

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<p>Such as the result of <a href="https://api.blocktrail.com/v1/btc/transaction/57ecab25858a91448cbca713ea369c23a06f6080fca85dea367c33fad93fa056?api_key=MY_APIKEY" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.blocktrail.com/v1/btc/transaction/57ecab25858a91448cbca713ea369c23a06f6080fca85dea367c33fad93fa056?api_key=MY_APIKEY</a></p>

<p>Also what exactly does "raw" mean here? Could it be translated to some information?</p>

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Why does some transaction returned in the result of Blocktrail api call contain a field called "raw"?
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# Why does some transaction returned in the result of Blocktrail api call contain a field called "raw"?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-05)

Such as the result of <https://api.blocktrail.com/v1/btc/transaction/57ecab25858a91448cbca713ea369c23a06f6080fca85dea367c33fad93fa056?api_key=MY_APIKEY>

Also what exactly does "raw" mean here? Could it be translated to some information?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-03-06. Score: 1

It looks like a hex encoding of the binary encoding that Bitcoin uses. You could also get this through the `getrawtransaction` Bitcoin RPC call, if you have `txindex=1` enabled.


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