Ethereum Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Ethereum, the decentralized application platform and smart contract enabled blockchain. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
In other blockchain based platforms, it's possible to send transactions to multiple recipients. For instance, if I want to send 13 ETH to Alice and 7 ETH to Bob, Bitcoin has sendmany. Is it possible to accomplish this in one Ethereum transaction?
Or would I have to create a contract which forwards the ether?
The recipient of an Ethereum transaction can only ever be a single entity, as specified by the Yellow Paper (http://gavwood.com/paper.pdf) page 4, section 4.2, to field.
However as you mentioned, a contract can itself create multiple transactions as a result of a single invocation.
@péter-szilágyi I think we can also achieve this by taking the multiple addresses in as argument and using the send transaction we could send it in one go
