Bitcoin’s UTxO vs. Cardano’s Extended UTxO: A Comparative Study

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Coinmonks
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7 min readApr 2, 2024

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Bitcoin uses the UTxO accounting model. For the IOG team, this model was not sufficient for the Cardano mission, so they extended it. Cardano uses the Extended UTxO model. In this article, we will explain the meaning of ‘Extended’.

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