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

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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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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so seems im not the only one getting free coins.

sad part is i never get tips on the forum even tho i make decent posts

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 06, 2014, 07:07:07 PM

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https://blockchain.info/tx/24b2f498e7e53f5880f3b388b8daea341c7c9dfd7244178de18cffe0fac0764d

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1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9 (Laxo Trade ) (0.32033 BTC - Output)

Hm, yes, advertisement methinks.

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Quote from: bigasic on September 06, 2014, 11:17:43 PM

After looking at some of the addresses that .0001btc was sent to. this address caught my eye 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr I wonder how long it took them and how much hashing power to get that bitcoinaddress? especially with the capital C and the rest of the name lower case? when I try for a vanity, im glad just to get it, no matter if its upper or lower.. that took a long time and/or a lot of resources.

By the way, got another free coin... this time it was 100x bigger.. keep em coming.... its like christmas..

1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr is the burn address for counterparty (it's like an altcoin on top of the btc blockchain), not a vanity address. Nobody knows it's private key, at least that's what they claim, no one is supposed to... it would be a very clever and elaborated scam if they had it.

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After looking at some of the addresses that .0001btc was sent to. this address caught my eye 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr I wonder how long it took them and how much hashing power to get that bitcoinaddress? especially with the capital C and the rest of the name lower case? when I try for a vanity, im glad just to get it, no matter if its upper or lower.. that took a long time and/or a lot of resources.

By the way, got another free coin... this time it was 100x bigger.. keep em coming.... its like christmas..

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Quote from: WoopDeBoop on September 06, 2014, 12:37:11 PM

address or i call bullshit

Private key or I call bullshit Grin

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 06, 2014, 12:51:23 PM

no he may be telling the truth. I received 0.00001
from here on Sept 4th I do not know why.

https://blockchain.info/address/1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9

I am one of many in this transaction.

https://blockchain.info/tx/1a599d230ae08259e257db0e7fea65d7fb1a2b1d2d4d93f158db8227a529309c

And I am not complaining

I received a very similar transaction to my address on my profile. I have only posted the address in one place (on the thread to sign up for the signature campaign I am in). It is also the BTC address on my forum profile, however it has not received any other payments.

My address is: 189ZeVvKf9rd9mEgJxUwLU7FcEjqsxDA64

The TX that I received the payment from is: 6ad7496bb01e3b513be40118057c971273606acd5dc74e85b7e2d4c492998001

There is a blockchain public note saying laxotrade.com and there are both an input and an output with an address tagged with laxotrade on blockchain.info (the same as in your case).

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Ive got a couple as well. they are very small, almost dust, but they are confirming. I think its advertising. check the blockchain to see if there is any messages given. I had one on one of mine...

forzendiablo

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why would i not tell truth here? im not advertising anything.
anyways yes seems somebody is mining p2p to my adress as i have mining icon.

an im liking it!

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on September 06, 2014, 02:02:15 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on September 06, 2014, 12:51:23 PM

no he may be telling the truth. I received 0.00001
from here on Sept 4th I do not know why.

https://blockchain.info/address/1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9

I am one of many in this transaction.

https://blockchain.info/tx/1a599d230ae08259e257db0e7fea65d7fb1a2b1d2d4d93f158db8227a529309c

And I am not complaining

He is talking about 1 BTC and U r talking about 10 uBTC. 2 are different scenario altogether.

yes but the guy sending the coin out does send bigger numbers then 0.00001

just read his address and you will see he does bigger numbers.

https://blockchain.info/tx/24b2f498e7e53f5880f3b388b8daea341c7c9dfd7244178de18cffe0fac0764d

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Hah, I got one too.

It's simple, really. They're advertising. The payment links to their website on blockchain.info. It's like paying for adspace, except the ad is a small bitcoin donation, because everyone ignores ads, but who doesn't like free money, right? Of course you're going to pay attention to it.

It's quite clever, actually.

That you're getting more than one sounds like a very nice mistake on their part. Enjoy.

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thanx guys
i prefer not to share the adress since.. if its a free ride i want it to last

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on September 06, 2014, 02:02:15 PM

-snip-

He is talking about 1 BTC and U r talking about 10 uBTC. 2 are different scenario altogether.

Yep those are considered spam or advertising because of the tag on blockchain.info.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 06, 2014, 12:51:23 PM

no he may be telling the truth. I received 0.00001
from here on Sept 4th I do not know why.

https://blockchain.info/address/1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9

I am one of many in this transaction.

https://blockchain.info/tx/1a599d230ae08259e257db0e7fea65d7fb1a2b1d2d4d93f158db8227a529309c

And I am not complaining

He is talking about 1 BTC and U r talking about 10 uBTC. 2 are different scenario altogether.

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wow i hope one of my address gets a blessing

philipma1957

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no he may be telling the truth. I received 0.00001
from here on Sept 4th I do not know why.

https://blockchain.info/address/1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9

I am one of many in this transaction.

https://blockchain.info/tx/1a599d230ae08259e257db0e7fea65d7fb1a2b1d2d4d93f158db8227a529309c

And I am not complaining

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address or i call bullshit

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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?

I would like tohave such address that gives golden eggs without the hen"
"how long is this going on" ? on a second thought just wait and see maybe there's mistake made by some one.

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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?

Care to share the address that is enjoying this free giveaway ?

I think, this is not the one => https://www.blocktrail.com/address/1CkJQ55EB8JhKqxCMEFK5ugWtrTfeHGQF

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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?

Even though my miners are not that powerfull I do the same from time to time. Mainly to thank people or encurage certain projects. Just change the payout address with the pool or cloudmining service and forget about it for a week or two.
A typo is so unlikely that you can consider it impossible and since it happened more than once its most likely no misstake either. Just to be on the safe side Id keep them for at least a week. Maybe someone will write you.
Now that I wrote that, make sure its not a scammer first

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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?

Act of god or good karma paying up Cheesy

I don't know what it is but you should definitely share it with [me] community

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Quote from: febiz on September 05, 2014, 08:36:51 PM

someone mining using your address in a p2p pool maybe?

oh okay - funny

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Just accept the money lol or give some to me if you don't want them.

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someone mining using your address in a p2p pool maybe?

forzendiablo

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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?

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