How can I get the transaction version from a hex dump?

Question

I am currently looking into the structure of bitcoin transactions. As an example, I took the hex dump of this transaction:

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

Looking at the JSON format, the transaction version should be 1.

I've read that the first 4 bytes of a transaction encode the version number (source).

2 hex characters are one byte, so 4 bytes are 8 hex characters. So the version is 01000000. But that would be 16777216, not 1.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

From https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Transaction_Verification we learn :

Almost all integers are encoded in little endian. Only IP or port number are encoded big endian.

You should look at the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness and flip the order of the bitstring to have the bit at the correct position

Using an online hex converter like this one https://www.scadacore.com/tools/programming-calculators/online-hex-converter/ you can actually see that the hex interpreted as uint32 results to 1