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To send coins with raw transactions, you need to create a raw transaction with one or more inputs (to have sufficient funds) and one or more outputs (to retrieve change). Then, you can follow your normal procedure of using `createrawtransaction` with named arguments and JQ, as laid out in previous sections.
### Why Use Raw Transactions
> :fire: ***What is the power of sending coins with raw transactions?***
_The advantages._ It gives you the best control. If your goal is to write a more intricate Bitcoin script or program, you'll probably use raw transactions so that you know exactly what's going on. This is also the _safest_ situation to use raw transactions, because you can programmatically ensure that you don't make mistakes.
> _The advantages._ It gives you the best control. If your goal is to write a more intricate Bitcoin script or program, you'll probably use raw transactions so that you know exactly what's going on. This is also the _safest_ situation to use raw transactions, because you can programmatically ensure that you don't make mistakes.
_The disadvantages._ It's easy to lose money. There are no warnings, no safeguards, and no programmatic backstops unless you write them. It's also arcane. The formatting is obnoxious, even using the easy-to-use `bitcoin-cli` interface, and you have to do a lot of lookup and calculation by hand.
> _The disadvantages._ It's easy to lose money. There are no warnings, no safeguards, and no programmatic backstops unless you write them. It's also arcane. The formatting is obnoxious, even using the easy-to-use `bitcoin-cli` interface, and you have to do a lot of lookup and calculation by hand.
## What's Next?
See another alternative way to input commands with [Interlude: Using Curl](04_4__Interlude_Using_Curl.md).
Or, you prefer to skip what's frankly a digression, learn one more way to "Send Bitcoin Transactions" with [§4.5 Sending Coins with Automated Raw Transactions](04_5_Sending_Coins_with_Automated_Raw_Transactions.md).