I had some dust in my wallet 4 years ago, today its worth 6000$.
This is interesting because it gives one to think that as the price goes up, what is dust today may be a respectable amount tomorrow, and therefore if one waits instead of trying to solve the dust problem today, one may find that the problem has solved itself.
One might. But what is exactly the problem in having low ammounts of coin in a wallet adress?Is there a real issue impending from it or just ones OCD.
The problem is that if you want to spend those low amounts you are going to pay a lot of money in fees. For this it is often worthwhile to consolidate them into an input when the fees are low as explained in the following thread:
[Sep 2021] Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs!
Looks like it's worth receiving dust. A 1000 satoshis today may be worth a lot after 4 years, that sender must have been regretting by now. Looks like a very wasteful way, this wouldn't be a method of choice today. It would be expensive to send the dust to an address too. I would rather be making those hackers who attempt regret when the 1000 sats will be worth spending.
But how about tracking them instead, can you provide that service while you are at it receiving dust?
