How many people have received random .00000001 transactions to their wallets?

grifferz

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Quote from: keithers on September 28, 2014, 03:04:22 AM

What is the point of that? Like what do they get out of it? Its not like its some ad that maybe a few people will click on or something like that

You're asking what the point is, 10 pages into a thread about it. 10 pages of people repeatedly asking what is going on and mentioning the names of the associated sites.

The existence of threads like this is the point of it!

hilariousandco

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It's exactly that: an advertisement. You and I are talking about them now and this thread is 10 pages long and growing. It will pique people's interest into checking them out.

keithers

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Quote from: hilariousandco on September 28, 2014, 02:54:14 AM

Of course they're not manually doing it; they're using bots. Manually collecting all those addresses and inputting them would take a life time or at least be a full time job.

What is the point of that? Like what do they get out of it? Its not like its some ad that maybe a few people will click on or something like that

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Of course they're not manually doing it; they're using bots. Manually collecting all those addresses and inputting them would take a life time or at least be a full time job.

keithers

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So is someone manually entering everyones address and sending that little amount of BTC? Whenever i check the blockchain for these dinky deposits, there are always like 100 other addresses that received the same 0.00000001btc

sandykho47

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I receive that almost everyday Angry

When i use my bitcoin, i need prepare more tx fee
because there are lot output Sad

I don't mind if they send at least 0.0001 Grin

keithers

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I have been receiving more and more of these lately. Usually it immediately follows when I receive a payment to my wallet. They have ranged from 0.00000001 to 0.0001. The smaller ones dont ever end up confirming and then they disappear, but the larger ones end up confirming. What is the point?

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Quote from: AliceWonder on July 19, 2014, 08:51:05 PM

I hope you all realize that when you post that you got one and the address, you are giving away information they can use to help tie your bitcoin address to an online identity.

My suggestion, just ignore the dust. It likely isn't going to get confirmed.

Instead of doing this you could push a 0 output TX that gives the dust to the miners so they somewhat higher level of TX fees.

rpandassociates

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I started getting these yesterday after sending some coin to localbitcoin to sell to someone. I have gotten 4 (0.00000001) transactions since yesterday. Very odd.

oceans

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This seems to happen to me all the time, I have one address I use for giveaways/free coins. I always get little transactions through it that I have no idea where they come from lol.
I have never checked to see where there coming from but hey its free money even if its pennies, it covers my transaction fees

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joshraban76

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This has happened to be about 3 times. I imagine it is from a address I left on my sig or something. When it happens I almost wish I could reply to the payment and say Hey Thanks

AliceWonder

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Quote from: TRex95 on July 19, 2014, 10:30:06 PM

Quote from: AliceWonder on July 19, 2014, 08:51:05 PM

I hope you all realize that when you post that you got one and the address, you are giving away information they can use to help tie your bitcoin address to an online identity.

My suggestion, just ignore the dust. It likely isn't going to get confirmed.

No the address that was sending the coins from was linked to an address associated with a gambling site. It apparently was being sent out as a form of advertising.

Well even if the sender isn't using it to find out who is associated with what addresses, anyone reading the thread can...

TRex95

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Quote from: AliceWonder on July 19, 2014, 08:51:05 PM

I hope you all realize that when you post that you got one and the address, you are giving away information they can use to help tie your bitcoin address to an online identity.

My suggestion, just ignore the dust. It likely isn't going to get confirmed.

No the address that was sending the coins from was linked to an address associated with a gambling site. It apparently was being sent out as a form of advertising.

AliceWonder

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I hope you all realize that when you post that you got one and the address, you are giving away information they can use to help tie your bitcoin address to an online identity.

My suggestion, just ignore the dust. It likely isn't going to get confirmed.

bradleyb5155

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I got .00000003 15 months ago!
1LqhdXuJbQL3TnF1auysVYbYpK3pXR4swz

Meuh6879

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amusing ... "1Sochi" Grin

http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

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Quote from: factor280 on June 27, 2014, 05:07:41 PM

I have received some of these. I think its marketing for different websites. I have received 2 and they all link to diff websites.

(Emphasis mine.)

We're talking about transactions like this one, right?
https://blockchain.info/tx/091434a679610910f489e9a0e3ffa1341dcb3dccf5a3fe3a21a09031056f4b55

Where do you see the link?

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Quote from: grifferz on June 19, 2014, 08:50:33 AM

Quote from: Justin00 on June 19, 2014, 04:06:43 AM

probably someone trying to track all your monies and link you as the underground kingping..

This keeps getting repeated but no one can explain how that would work.

These transactions do not make it to the block chain—they exist only in the mempool of servers for a temporary period as they never get confirmed.

(Emphasis mine.)

This keeps getting repeated but some of these transactions do get confirmed.
https://blockchain.info/address/1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

factor280

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I have received some of these. I think its marketing for different websites. I have received 2 and they all link to diff websites.

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Quote from: Azgalush on June 27, 2014, 03:31:37 PM

Nope, no random transactions for me.

here also, i cant even get .00000001 for free.
still dreaming about that 1000 btc random misstyped send to my wallet tho

any idea who is doing this "spam"

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