Im getting free BTCs mined to my wallet - WTF???

forzendiablo

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Quote from: squall1066 on September 10, 2014, 08:52:04 AM

I see posts like this from time to time, I was just wondering as a friend of mine noticed a few satoshi's going in, He thought it was free but I noticed his balance did not go up across all the addresses he had generated in that client, Can you confirm your actual total balance has gone up?

I was thinking it was to do with these "mixers" that are popping online, But even they cant just take coins out and replace them from a different source, It does not work like that.

yes they got conmfirmed BUT i stil let some spare coins [really small] that wont confirm ie 0,00001 etc.

so somebody is doing tests on soe madresses and im one ofthem ?

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Quote from: forzendiablo on September 05, 2014, 08:21:35 PM

Ok im here since long time but this is the strangest thing. For starters i do NOT have any sha256 miner right now.

For some reason since 48h im getting BTCs showing up in my wallet with status "mined". Its not full blocks like 25-50 BTCs but some random numbers between 0,1-1BTC not regurarly.

What is that? The coin are fully verified and working but how the hell am i getting them?

give me some, you are already in danger. Grin

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Quote from: squall1066 on September 10, 2014, 08:52:04 AM

I see posts like this from time to time, I was just wondering as a friend of mine noticed a few satoshi's going in, He thought it was free but I noticed his balance did not go up across all the addresses he had generated in that client, Can you confirm your actual total balance has gone up?

I was thinking it was to do with these "mixers" that are popping online, But even they cant just take coins out and replace them from a different source, It does not work like that.

Yes your balance in your wallet will actually go up, however it will be by a very small amount (less then a dollar). The kind of blockchain spam that you are referring to does not ever actually confirm while the spam in question has been confirming.

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I received a piece of that, to the address I used in the #bitcoin-otc authentication process on IRC.

=squeak=

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Quote from: squall1066 on September 10, 2014, 08:52:04 AM

I see posts like this from time to time, I was just wondering as a friend of mine noticed a few satoshi's going in, He thought it was free but I noticed his balance did not go up across all the addresses he had generated in that client, Can you confirm your actual total balance has gone up?

I was thinking it was to do with these "mixers" that are popping online, But even they cant just take coins out and replace them from a different source, It does not work like that.

The satoshi junk is just spammers who want you to look up the transaction on a blockchain explorer site and see their name tagged on the address. Other theories are that the dusters are trying to get you to use the satoshis as a way of tracking addresses.

Your balance can go up without any address you see in the user interface being paid. Bitcoin wallets have other addresses not shown to you, that are used for change. These can be discovered from past blockchain transactions, and people can send junk payments to them also.

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I see posts like this from time to time, I was just wondering as a friend of mine noticed a few satoshi's going in, He thought it was free but I noticed his balance did not go up across all the addresses he had generated in that client, Can you confirm your actual total balance has gone up?

I was thinking it was to do with these "mixers" that are popping online, But even they cant just take coins out and replace them from a different source, It does not work like that.

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I wish I was lucky like you in this case

forzendiablo

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sadly to all those greedy people here.. this has stopped already Sad

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Quote from: forzendiablo on September 08, 2014, 11:02:57 PM

Quote from: griffga on September 08, 2014, 09:07:48 PM

Dude, you're getting free money. Consider it a great gift and go use it the best that you can!

yep im doing it but i feel shame i get none of tips here =]]]]]]]]

How do you know they aren't tips?

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Why can't things like this happen to me!? A screen shot would be cool. How many transactions so far?

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Quote from: griffga on September 08, 2014, 09:07:48 PM

Dude, you're getting free money. Consider it a great gift and go use it the best that you can!

yep im doing it but i feel shame i get none of tips here =]]]]]]]]

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Dude, you're getting free money. Consider it a great gift and go use it the best that you can!

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If it's all exact amounts 0.01, 1, 0.0001 etc. it is unlikely to be from mining directly. The pools I use(d) let you specify an exact amount, 0.01 for example, but when it comes to paying out there's always some extra like 0.0101046.

For the txs coming from the Laxo address, it's not malicious if you consider advertising a ponzi scheme to be non-malicious. If you're complaining about dust clogging up the wallet, well that's what you get from making your address public.

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I'm sure its probably not malicious... but someone could be mixing their coins in with yours to see where they end up.
Kind of what those people where trying to try and track down the eleventy $$$$$$$ stolen sheep funds from aggeees away.

Hmmm I wonder what ever happened with that.

I wouldn't worry... Happy spending

tspacepilot

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I can't tell which claims to believe or repond to. Some are talking about gifts of integer btc?! Others seem to be referring to dusts and spam. Multiple stories conflated in this thread, I think.

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Quote from: Nullu on September 06, 2014, 02:09:58 PM

but who doesn't like free money, right? Of course you're going to pay attention to it.

It's not good news at all-- It's less than a half cent in value, you'll use about that much or more in marginal transaction fees just to include that input. The value to you is basically zero. At the same time spending the dust will cause your wallet to interlink addresses, lowering your privacy. Plus, on top of that, these transactions increase the size of the blockchain on disk and slow down the synchronization time-- making Bitcoin slightly less usable to everyone.

And all this to promote a ponzi scheme. Great.

If you're using bitcoin-qt you can use this to sweep away the dust in an efficient way that also helps gum up stupid 'taint' analysis by effectively coinjoining it off. https://github.com/petertodd/dust-b-gone

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Lucky duck.....is all i can say now.

MemCiD

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I got 3 BTC randomly from no where once.. I was so surprised lol

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Maybe someone is mining to your address as a tip?

Anyway, the people that are talking about the advertizing transactions, those aren't the same as someone mining to your address. I've gotten those 1ENJOY ones before, but I've never had someone mine btc to an address I owned. Frankly, I find this a little suspicious, if enchanting.

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