Understand available, unavailable, and protected balance

About 6 minutesStandard careWallet 1.7.5.8· unpublished

Outcome: You can explain why the wallet may show more wealth than spendable funds.

Completion looks like: You can read the balance anatomy on home and protected outputs without surprise.

If something goes wrong: Reading only; nothing to recover.

All steps

Read the home balance anatomy
You are trying to
See total, available, and held-back amounts with the ownership line.
You should see
Home splits the balance when parts are not spendable.
You do
Compare total and available. The difference is explained below the numbers.
Before you continue, check
Unconfirmed incoming payments and protected outputs both reduce available funds.
What can go wrong
Treating the total as spendable leads to stuck payments, not losses.
Reversible?
Yes.
Open protected outputs
You are trying to
See what the wallet holds back and why.
You should see
The protected outputs screen lists held outputs with reasons.
You do
Open it from settings or home.
Before you continue, check
Protected outputs carry artifacts (inscriptions, rare sats) that plain spending would destroy or move.
What can go wrong
Forcing a spend that consumes a protected output can send your art with your payment.
Reversible?
Yes.

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