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btcash

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Why do these transactions even get relayed?
https://blockchain.info/de/tx/5fb080b8ba88696a97c44f6ba9bd26185a884fbdcd7a15c427e889915483e312

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Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee (0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.

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Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are included in a block.

BTW: Is a transaction that doesn't not match the fee requirement also considered as a non standard tx?

EDIT: Seems like the the sender is directly connected to Blockchain.info
https://blockchain.info/de/ip-address/83.223.162.123
But this doesn't not explain why people receive them in their wallets.

ockelz

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After "Enjoy & Sochi" I now also got spammed by "Play and Win BTC" directly after receiving a payment ...

http://i.imgur.com/TcaFBhB.png?1

https://blockchain.info/nl/tx/53c763d7a835b67eac1db411300bfcb709105748892c5f5b50d415b061636185
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bhv6XjXBvraivcATHwwLMscZ5xJm9FsPn

hilariousandco

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Quote from: b!z on February 11, 2014, 07:04:23 AM

I got a free fraction of a cent.

Did you? Will it ever confirm though?

b!z

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I got a free fraction of a cent.

guybrushthreepwood

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Quote from: phlogistonq on February 10, 2014, 08:13:17 PM

"They" are trying to find out who you are and what addresses you own:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xenyd/just_received_weird_tiny_payments_1sochi_1enjoy/
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/someone-sending-out-millibits-282238

Reading that I still don't understand how "they" will know what addresses I own or why they would want to.

Bitobsessed

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Hmm..send me some satoshis and I will send them on their way.

bitmutiny

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My wallet just received two separate transactions for 1 Satoshi from address: 1Bhv6XjXBvraivcATHwwLMscZ5xJm9FsPn

fishseeds

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Quote from: Mike@Coinswag on February 10, 2014, 04:09:33 PM

This address too: 1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

Should anyone who receives a deposit from one of these addresses be worried?

I saw a post on reddit the other day asking about deposits from enjoy and sochi addresses. Like tiny amounts. Someone replied and said that who ever is doing that is "dusting" the network for adresses. I am not sure what he meant and he didn't reply but i would still be vigilant. Maybe someone on the forum knows what "dusting" is.

u9y42

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Quote from: R2D221 on February 10, 2014, 10:03:57 PM

Now I feel sad because I haven't received money from 1Enjoy 1Sochi Undecided

Technically, neither did anyone else... Tongue

R2D221

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Now I feel sad because I haven't received money from 1Enjoy 1Sochi Undecided

DPoS

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why don't you just Enjoy Sochi and not worry so much?? Tongue

MaxwellsDemon

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Quote from: phlogistonq on February 10, 2014, 08:13:17 PM

"They" are trying to find out who you are and what addresses you own:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xenyd/just_received_weird_tiny_payments_1sochi_1enjoy/
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/someone-sending-out-millibits-282238

... except they'll never get confirmed so none of this is relevant. All they're doing is spamming the mempool for a few hours.

I guess this really is a new form of advertising.
It's kind of smart if you think about it - with the 5430 satoshi limit, sending this much spam into the blockchain is prohibitively expensive. And why bother? Advertisement campaigns are transient anyway. No need to keep a record, just to get the message out there to as many people as possible, if only for a second. Setting up some vanity addresses and sending lots of transactions that will never get confirmed is essentially free, and it gets their message (in this case, "Enjoy Sochi") into the only mempool that really matters - our brains...
Welcome to the age of free, P2P, blockchain-independent advertising.

cAPSLOCK

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Note the unconventional cAPITALIZATION!

In my case they are only sending a satoshi to addresses with only a single input (ie cold wallets). At one point a transaction I made seemed to be a doublespend attempt in the blockchain because of it.

Odd... mildly concerning.

phlogistonq

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"They" are trying to find out who you are and what addresses you own:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xenyd/just_received_weird_tiny_payments_1sochi_1enjoy/
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/someone-sending-out-millibits-282238

DeathAndTaxes

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Gerald Davis

Quote from: MaxwellsDemon on February 10, 2014, 07:52:49 PM

Quote from: kireinaha on February 10, 2014, 06:51:06 PM

The silver lining is, if we get enough of these messages, we can make a decent sum of money at the expense of the distrubitors.

No, because they will never be confirmed.

By the way, do these get thrown out of the mempool after a while?

Each node maintains its own memory pool if it runs out of room it will discard the oldest. So yes, although there is no set time and the "network" doesn't coordinate it.

MaxwellsDemon

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Quote from: kireinaha on February 10, 2014, 06:51:06 PM

The silver lining is, if we get enough of these messages, we can make a decent sum of money at the expense of the distrubitors.

No, because they will never be confirmed.

By the way, do these get thrown out of the mempool after a while?

WindMaster

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Perhaps this is a demonstration of the futility of red-listing tainted BTC (at least without coin control tweaks to the Bitcoin client).

Automatic

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Quote from: rix5 on February 10, 2014, 07:30:04 PM

yay! free money!

Yay! $700 * 10^-8!

rix5

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yay! free money!

guybrushthreepwood

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Quote from: Mike@Coinswag on February 10, 2014, 04:09:33 PM

This address too: 1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

Should anyone who receives a deposit from one of these addresses be worried?

Lol somebody just sent me a Satoshi. Very funny.

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