diff --git a/zebra-chain/src/block/arbitrary.rs b/zebra-chain/src/block/arbitrary.rs
index 35eb0d3f5..cc0b46a2f 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/src/block/arbitrary.rs
+++ b/zebra-chain/src/block/arbitrary.rs
@@ -551,7 +551,8 @@ where
     let mut spent_outputs = HashMap::new();
 
     // fixup the transparent spends
-    for mut input in transaction.inputs().to_vec().into_iter() {
+    let original_inputs = transaction.inputs().to_vec();
+    for mut input in original_inputs.into_iter() {
         if input.outpoint().is_some() {
             // the transparent chain value pool is the sum of unspent UTXOs,
             // so we don't need to check it separately, because we only spend unspent UTXOs