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Wallets & custody · Maintained 2026

Coin selection

Coin selection is the wallet process of choosing which UTXOs to spend, balancing fees, change, future spend cost, and privacy implications such as unnecessary ownership linkage.

Context

Why it matters

Coin selection is the wallet process of choosing which UTXOs to spend, balancing fees, change, future spend cost, and privacy implications such as unnecessary ownership linkage.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

  • Coin selection is the wallet process of choosing which UTXOs to spend, balancing fees, change, future spend cost, and privacy implications such as unnecessary ownership linkage.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion
Bitcoin Core documentation

Bitcoin Core

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Bitcoin Optech

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