when I pay with physical cash I usually get a receipt on what that cashed was used for and even the receiving business keeps a copy for their records.

But in all thanks for clearing this up for me, when I can issue as many adresses as I want I have a way to track payments, even in a large business environment.

is there a limit to the amount of adresses I can assign?
For bigger companies this might be a crucial point.
If I have 100'000 transactions per month that I want to monitor, I would need 100'000 adresses - per month.
Is the system capable of providing that?

alright, sending out payments I usually know what I am doing, but I am more concerned about the recipient.

Let's say I sell 10 items with the same price and 8 people pay me, I will have a pretty hard time finding out who did and who did not pay me so far.

Hi all,

when I make a regular bank transaction I have the opportunity to send a message to the recipient, usually a text of what this payment is about (client number , bill number etc.).
Bitcoin is currently lacking such an option. If it shall be used more widely, I believe it is necessary such an option will be included in the client/infrastructure.
Otherwise it is impossible for a bigger company to effectively track payments.

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