What does it mean? Unspent value is different from specified fee

(Benz Muircroft) #1

When building a raw transaction to push to blockr.io

var unspents=
    [ { txid: '67b22a1874be2e748b2c904e2181f85a9d6503001e58c374e17b1161cd5a36f4',
        outputIndex: 0,
        address: 'myHtNgECiAjBctWz1tM2TN2PupWwfHtgMi',
        scriptPubKey: '76a914c2f9958848c465efd042fcb76fef519f03a83ec288ac',
        amount: 0.001,
        confirmations: 70 } ];

var amount=100000;

var transaction=new bitcore.Transaction()
	.fee(bitcore.Unit.fromBTC(0.0001).toSatoshis())
	.from(unspents)
	.to(bitcore.Address.fromString(payToAddress),amount)
	.change(address)
	.sign(privateKey);

I get the error:

{ [bitcore.ErrorTransactionFeeErrorDifferent: Unspent value is different from specified fee: Unspent value is 0 but specified fee is 10000 Use Transaction#uncheckedSerialize if you want to skip security checks. See http://bitcore.io/guide/transaction.html#Serialization for more info.]
message: 'Unspent value is different from specified fee: Unspent value is 0 but specified fee is 10000 Use Transaction#uncheckedSerialize if you want to skip security checks.

My testnet transaction object looks like this:

‘{“version”:1,“inputs”:[{“prevTxId”:“67b22a1874be2e748b2c904e2181f85a9d6503001e58c374e17b1161cd5a36f4”,“outputIndex”:0,“sequenceNumber”:4294967295,“script”:“473044022030b5b1763041d9e78c4b657cc59d510a490bc9d062fd0bdae3aa3c4362ef5d950220377fd90fd40544470a3cc86ba7a39fbfc5879e138e6a0f2d75dc50f01af38cea012102bbe798da887604bdd360dd059061b48816634e44d9f54563af2c727b8bcb3e2f”,“scriptString”:“71 0x3044022030b5b1763041d9e78c4b657cc59d510a490bc9d062fd0bdae3aa3c4362ef5d950220377fd90fd40544470a3cc86ba7a39fbfc5879e138e6a0f2d75dc50f01af38cea01 33 0x02bbe798da887604bdd360dd059061b48816634e44d9f54563af2c727b8bcb3e2f”,“output”:{“satoshis”:100000,“script”:“76a914c2f9958848c465efd042fcb76fef519f03a83ec288ac”}}],“outputs”:[{“satoshis”:100000,“script”:“a9149ffdff1f3eea0deb21ed967b91c7ef3cce65b2d687”}],“nLockTime”:0,“changeScript”:“OP_DUP OP_HASH160 20 0xc2f9958848c465efd042fcb76fef519f03a83ec2 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG”,“fee”:10000}’

Why is bitcore protesting? I see all figures are in satoshi so what is the ‘difference’ that it is complaining about?

(Braydon Fuller) #2

All of the unspent outputs are being consumed via the to() call, and therefore nothing left for the fees. Make sure to subtract the fee from the amount, so that there is remainder available:


var fee = 10000 // 0.0001 BTC
var amount = 100000 - fee;
(Benz Muircroft) #3

thanks i got it now

(Benz Muircroft) #4

I ran into this problem again today (nearly 2 years later) and again … lol “I got it now!”