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May 16, 2016, 10:59:11 PM
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When I looked up an address on blockchain.info, I found a transaction with the message "Unable to decode output address " standing above the receiving address. What does this mean?  Roll Eyes

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May 17, 2016, 12:08:29 AM
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When I looked up an address on blockchain.info, I found a transaction with the message "Unable to decode output address " standing above the receiving address. What does this mean?  Roll Eyes


It means that the output script is not an address but rather a custom script. Typically this is an OP_RETURN output which encodes 80 bytes of arbitrary data into the transaction.

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May 17, 2016, 02:36:33 AM
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When I looked up an address on blockchain.info, I found a transaction with the message "Unable to decode output address " standing above the receiving address. What does this mean?  Roll Eyes



There is a similar discussion here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1453347.0

With a bit more detail.
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