One Bitcoin address is not a whole wallet

A Bitcoin address identifies a payment destination. A wallet can manage many addresses. This report shows activity associated with the address you enter. It does not include the other addresses in your wallet.

Why the total can differ from your wallet

Imagine a wallet has 0.02 BTC at address A and 0.03 BTC at address B. A report for A shows 0.02 BTC. The wallet may show 0.05 BTC because it knows both addresses. This is an illustration, not live account data.

Wallets can also send change to a different address when spending. A smaller balance at one address does not, by itself, establish how much the owner still holds elsewhere.

Balance, transactions, and unspent outputs

A balance is an amount. A transaction is a recorded transfer that can have several inputs and outputs. An unspent transaction output, or UTXO, is an output that has not yet been spent. One address can have many unspent outputs, so transaction count, UTXO count, and balance measure different things.

The report’s chain notes describe observations such as output count and repeated use of an address. They are not a safety rating or an instruction to move funds. Very small outputs may be uneconomic to spend under some fee assumptions; their presence alone does not prove an attack.

Repeated use is publicly visible

Payments to the same address are publicly linkable. Reusing an address may make one report look more complete, but it can also make activity easier to associate. You do not need to change how your wallet handles addresses to use this report.

What this report cannot establish

Common questions

How do I see my whole wallet?

Save each address you use in a Watch account and open the combined view. It adds up the saved addresses' balances and lists their transactions together. It only knows the addresses you save.

Why did my balance move to a new address?

When a wallet spends, it usually sends the change to a fresh address it controls. The old address can drop to zero while the wallet's total barely moves.

What does address reuse mean in chain notes?

The address has received more than one payment. Anyone who knows the address can link those payments to each other.

What are the small outputs listed in chain notes?

Outputs so small that spending them may cost more in fees than they are worth. They often arrive unasked. Many wallets leave them unspent.

An address report does not prove the owner’s identity, list every address they control, or reveal the purpose of every transfer. Public labels can include qualifications. Historical market values do not establish what someone paid.

Try the report

Open the public example to see the layout without entering an address of your own. Or return to the lookup box and enter a public Bitcoin address. Lookup is read only and does not connect to a wallet.

Further reading: Bitcoin transaction concepts, Bitcoin Optech on output linking.