In the industry txid is known as "transaction hash". Why wasn't the "hash" field called "wtxid"?
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The idea is that it is returning the hash of the entire transaction data. Currently, that is always identical to the wtxid.
But in a hypothetical future, where more data may get added to transaction serializations, in addition to the base data (covered by txid) and witness data, hash would change to always cover everything.
answered Mar 13, 2023 at 23:27
