When you receive a transaction, the amount is split into thousands, hundreds, tens, ones, etc. So if you are sent 1234 TRTL, this is stored as 1000, 200, 30, 40 in your wallet.
When you want to send a transaction, regardless of how much you are sending, you have to use these stored amounts. If we wanted to send 10 TRTL, and you only have a 1000 TRTL input, you have to use this.
Depending upon the rules of your network, a mixin level may be enforced. This does some fancy cryptography to hide your transaction outputs among others, so people can't tell who sent the transaction.
To do this, we need to match your input with other inputs. So, in the previous example, where we were sending 10 TRTL, with an 1000 TRTL input, we will need some other 1000 TRTL inputs to mix with.
In the case of TRTL, the mixin is 3, so we need 3 other 1000 TRTL inputs to create our transaction.
The error occurs when there aren't enough of these inputs.
As I mentioned before, when you send a transaction, it is split into thousands, hundreds, etc. This makes new inputs of this amount. If enough transactions of this size have not been sent, your transaction will fail.
This often occurs in new networks, as very few transactions have been sent, or for people who have very large inputs - as not many people have enough funds to create an input of that amount.
To create another input of the same amount, someone must send that amount. If you need an input of 8,000,000 TRTL, someone must send an amount at least this large. The amount they send must include 8,000,000 TRTL as the 'Million' value.
There are a couple of ways to create this amount:
- A transaction of exactly 8,000,000 TRTL would work - creates 1 input of 8,000,000 TRTL.
- A transaction of 8,123,456 TRTL would work - creates inputs,
8000000, 100000, 20000, 3000, 400, 50, 60 - A transaction of 18,000,000 TRTL would work - creates inputs of
10000000, 8000000.
Of course, this is a little tricky since you can't send your own funds. Sometimes, you'll just have to wait - or try and get someone to send transactions of exactly that amount.
The easiest way is by using this blockchain explorer - https://explorer.turtlecoin.lol/mixable.html
This shows the amount, the amount of existing outputs of that amount, and the date, if applicable, when the amount became 'mixable'.
The wallet selects the inputs to use randomly. If your wallet is comprised of the inputs 100, 200, 300, 400, you want to send 1 TRTL, and the 400 input is unmixable, 25% of the time, that input will get selected randomly, and fail the transaction.
However, if you were wanting to send your full balance - that input would be selected 100% of the time, so your transaction will always fail.
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