Blockchain spam? Or something more interesting?

amaclin

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Quote from: Divinespark on November 07, 2014, 03:37:33 AM

Hmm. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...or is this something deeper and possibly more sinister? Wink

Someone can publish a report, that the number of transactions rises. And gain profit.
Really, I do not know now the reason.
But I am 100% sure that the reason for such strange things exists.

Divinespark

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Hmm. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...or is this something deeper and possibly more sinister? Wink

bornil267645

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AltoCenter.com

way the blockchain is heading it only leads to a four letter word SPAM. I am not seeing anything INTERESTING about them.

amaclin

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https://blockchain.info/address/16SuiM7QZU6HUo73XP3hsw2TQ4NDfCc52

Shocked

lobin

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Quote from: fa on October 29, 2014, 09:20:16 PM

Maybe its someone experimenting with BTC development. Not a big deal Cool

hope so, but if it is not some experiment, the problem can be serious.
BUG?

bitkilo

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https://www.bitcoin.com/

It is strange, with no tx header it can't be advertising. Double spend testing maybe, random give-aways, could be anything.

fa

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Maybe its someone experimenting with BTC development. Not a big deal Cool

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Quote from: fredthegambler on October 29, 2014, 08:35:20 PM

Any update about this guys? Is blockchain still sending these messages?

blockchain never use to send any spam but apparently you are doing the same around forums with junk spam posts. Angry

fredthegambler

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Any update about this guys? Is blockchain still sending these messages?

opossum

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Quote from: terman45x on October 27, 2014, 04:33:52 AM

Quote from: amaclin on October 27, 2014, 04:28:35 AM

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someone is wasting a lot of bitcoin on TX fees.

LOL

What do you mean by "a lot of bitcoin"?
An equivalent of $10? $100? $1000?

It adds up, if someone spamming the blockchain with sending dust to many addresses he has to pay 0.0001 BTC per kb

This was exactly my point. Every 1 TX will generally cost .0001 per TX, or every 10 TX will cost .001 (or ~$.45) and every 100 TX will cost .01 (or ~$4.50). Even this is a small amount, however, as you can see the cost does quickly add up

amaclin

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It adds up, if someone spamming the blockchain with sending dust to many addresses he has to pay 0.0001 BTC per kb

Look:
https://blockchain.info/address/13eb7BFXgHeXfxrdDev1ehrBSGVPG6obu8
Total Received 0.49979727 BTC
This person wasted no more than $100! (Less in fact because bc.i adds the funds which were received back from technical addresses)
Is it "a lot of money" for you? Grin

OK, may be it is a very larger amount of money for you. But not for him. Grin

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Quote from: amaclin on October 27, 2014, 04:28:35 AM

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someone is wasting a lot of bitcoin on TX fees.

LOL

What do you mean by "a lot of bitcoin"?
An equivalent of $10? $100? $1000?

It adds up, if someone spamming the blockchain with sending dust to many addresses he has to pay 0.0001 BTC per kb

amaclin

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someone is wasting a lot of bitcoin on TX fees.

LOL

What do you mean by "a lot of bitcoin"?
An equivalent of $10? $100? $1000?

opossum

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Quote from: amaclin on October 26, 2014, 01:12:50 PM

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This could be part of a promo someone is doing. The amount is not at dust level. I don't mind getting some of these spam everyday.

This person sends small amounts and returns back them to original address.
This looks as useless thing. But the owner knows what he is doing.
This is not a "dust spam" to bitcoin users. This is spamming blockchain (I do not mean the site bc.i) itself wasting disk space.

I think a more accurate description would be that someone is wasting a lot of bitcoin on TX fees. I see no reason for whoever is behind these addresses to engage in these transactions, and that all of these TXs seem to include a TX fee (standard amount of .0001) which add up

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Terminated.

Quote from: krach on October 22, 2014, 01:51:15 PM

maybe it is somewhere here
http://cryptograffiti.info

Nice website thank you for the share.
Looking at the amount of transactions I don't see significance here. Even if it is 'double spend testing', that is good. If bitcoin is vulnerable it is better that someone finds out now.

amaclin

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This could be part of a promo someone is doing. The amount is not at dust level. I don't mind getting some of these spam everyday.

This person sends small amounts and returns back them to original address.
This looks as useless thing. But the owner knows what he is doing.
This is not a "dust spam" to bitcoin users. This is spamming blockchain (I do not mean the site bc.i) itself wasting disk space.

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Quote from: amaclin on October 21, 2014, 08:34:40 AM

https://blockchain.info/address/13eb7BFXgHeXfxrdDev1ehrBSGVPG6obu8
https://blockchain.info/address/12f6cDdbioEr4ckNxjRyz3netnriQ4pAAW

This could be part of a promo someone is doing. The amount is not at dust level. I don't mind getting some of these spam everyday.

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People in locked down positions trying to get messages out.

amaclin

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Spam continues:
https://blockchain.info/address/13eb7BFXgHeXfxrdDev1ehrBSGVPG6obu8

There can be an explanation that somebody creates an address with many "reuses".
What a reason for having such address? Hehe Grin

Think yourself. One possible clue:

http://eligius.st/~gateway/faq-page

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New transaction selection policy decided from miners' meeting (not in effect yet, ETA unknown):
Standard payment transactions, including arbitrary P2SH, are mined if they pay a reasonable fee.
Data carrier transactions are permitted to be up to 80 bytes.
Address reuse and probable spam incur a penalty on transaction priority.
Blocks are filled gradually to 128 KB at a transaction fee rate of 0.1 TBC per 512 bytes.
Beyond 128 KB, transactions may be included if they offer a higher fee.
Non-standard transactions is selected only if it they have a higher-than-default fee (100 TBC/0.16777216 BTC per 512 bytes).
Dust, confirmed spam, "bare" multisig, and custom "dangerous" scripts will not be mined under any conditions.

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Quote from: Outlander on October 22, 2014, 02:00:53 PM

I think, blockchain has a problem with their server, I can't send any payment around 2 hours yesterday.

Might be the massive userbase using their mywallet service.
They are performing fine imo with me!!

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