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I reviewed the transactions from a recent ICO. The account below provided the largest investment. If you check the account, there is a far greater Out value than In. I was under the impression that IN and OUT had to be equal. How is this possible?

https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0xa65e9fec4f892ef6e9fe3888ed9b0eb6aab1f0fd

Just curious

Thanks

eth
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The accounting has to work, yes, in that what remains in the account has to balance what's come in and gone out.

What you're missing are the internal transactions, made as a result of contract execution.

There are two large internal transactions made to that address:

  • 18,833 ETH from 0xb565F9f09bcC7BBA5d2CbE6ba8f57aDAE15C6ab0
  • 10,487 ETH from 0x1644033f911e777Ad69C0fbe60A44594011B56fd

Both of these are wallet contracts [1, 2].

These balance nicely with the two big payments from the address:

  • 18,832 ETH <- iEx.ec crowdsale
  • 10,486 ETH <- Matchpool crowdsale
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  • @sparcusa: One reference for "internal transactions" https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3417/how-to-get-contract-internal-transactions – eth Apr 27 '17 at 06:10