Topic: Some one is sending me BTC 0.00000001 , Why? - page 5. (Read 6775 times)

No... as I said above, apparently what they're doing is "screen scraping" valid bitcoin addresses AS they FLOW thru the BLOCKCHAIN.

So USING an address in any way makes it catchable by these idiots.

I have had single-use disposable addresses (on casino website, for example) that have shown up .00000001 immediately after ONE transaction has gone thru it.

Change BTC address and don't let them discover your address again?

I'm not complaining about laxotrade's free mBTC

None that I've ever been figure out. I'm hoping Laxo Trade and blockchain-spammers like that one will just run out of Bitcoin eventually.

It would definitely be a nice feature to be able auto send input from certain addy back to its origin (I do not have an overview how it should be implemented, but the transaction should be free from tx fee), it would require that your wallet is online and open though. Nevertheless, I just expect that the spam company will start shuffling the addys, then would you not be able to predict what addy to enable "auto-return" for.

No.

Aha... good point, never thought of it that way before.

OTOH with snail-mail you DO have the option to write "Moved No Forwarding Address Return To Sender" on the unopened envelope and drop it back into the mail... LOL.   Maybe bitcoin could have something similar.

nope and there's no way to block them just ignore them and they will get confirmed some time.

Is there a way to just block Laxo Trade transactions? this is annoying.

I got 0.0001 BTC from Laxo trade last night on one of my public known addy, a whole $0.04, at least it will pay my next tx.
https://blockchain.info/tx/ea13b2315888e00b8423d7fc54cc56163c875b59b11f8ee1c821a4219ecac787

Getting one satoshi is annoying, I do agree. However the core principal of bitcoin is based on asymmetric encryption. It is very similar to the system we know from receiving ordinary mail. If someone knows your address then can they send you a letter, no mater if you like it or not. If I knew your home address, then could I send you a letter and you would not be able to prevent me for doing so. The "tx" fee is rather high for sending ordinary letter compared to the 4 cent it cost to make a bitcoin transaction. Increasing the tx fee would definitely limit the "spam", but I think the tx fee is reasonable as it is now (might change my mind in the future about the size of the tx fee).

Yeah I know, LOL... and again I don't try to do this on ALL wallets, that'd be insane.  This really ISN'T an "OCD" thing LOL

I'm only annoyed by it when it hits my MAIN hot-storage wallet (and, couple of times happened even to a COLD storage address, which was even more annoying 'cuz I don't plan to *ever* take that money out of there, not at least until BTC is $$$$$$$)

But I guess maybe by then an extra satoshi or two might be worth something, LOL... so, whatever I guess.

Still.  Why the fuck do these idiots DO shit like this?  I can't imagine anyone really ever doing any business with them on the basis of finding these stupid URL links in bitcoin spam.

Cool to receive free coins but hope next time it will be much higher than that. 
Yeah, how do they trace your address anyway and the new address? weird...

That's a really difficult task, keeping your wallet to whole numbers I mean.

I got that one Satoshi thing just this morning too. Really it doesn't seem to be good for anything except turning Bitcointalk into a gaggle of geese every time it happens to somebody. If somebody wants to send out single Satoshi, which is basically worth squat right now, it's up to them and in real terms it's nothing that's going to affect my operations one way or the other.

That won't help. 

These assholes appear to be screen-scraping "working" wallet addresses by watching transactions flowing across the blockchain.

ANY address you ever USE in any wallet can potentially receive these spam dust transactions.

IF it was just some disposable wallets getting hit, then I wouldn't care either.  But it's fucking annoying that these bits of dust are being forced into my MAIN PRIMARY WALLET ADDRESSES that I deliberately try hard to keep only WHOLE BTC values in, to better keep track of them in memory, and for security & peace of mind in managing all my bitcoin.  (But as I said above, these fucking spammers with their .00000001 nonsense are blowing that system...)

Okay I understand your point but I don't agree that it's just "OCD problems" to be unhappy with receiving this "free money".

Sure if it was at least a whole penny or two, maybe yah then okay I'd take it.  Or IF it was at least 0.0001 so that the spammer was paying for a transaction fee at least!  But at current BTC value, just a single satoshi?  Sorry, nope, don't want this "free money" LOL

Keeping my wallet balances at "whole bitcoin" numbers in CERTAIN wallets that I maintain is NOT just an "OCD thing"... it's a deliberate policy that I follow so that I'm better able to remember how much bitcoin I have stored, and where.

But when these balances keep changing by tiny fractions of eight decimal place numbers it blows the whole system.  When I don't see my expected "whole number" value there I have to go and check to see that something isn't wrong, the wallet wasn't hacked or some transaction wasn't sent incorrectly or the balance got fucked up for some OTHER reason.

It's a big time-waster and a huge annoyance and not just "OCD" problem.

Anyway, what I do now to deal with this is just periodically "clean up" those wallets by collecting the dust into another disposable wallet or something like that, for a dollar or so, and donate it to a charity site.

But it's still annoying and I'd rather just have a way to say NO THANK YOU to certain .00000001 unsolicited spam "Free Money" transactions... BEFORE they're given any chance to confirm... if only that were somehow possible in the wallet's programming.

I still think it'd be a valuable feature for some wallet to implement...

I was spammed by the exact same sites

I think we need a Bitcointalk.org spam wallet that operates independently of the wallet with our main funds

There's a link with those transactions, tells you where that transactions is comming from. But now they are advertising their shitty websites, some people click on them and even invest on them. These dust transactions serves as advertisements that's all nothing more.

Guys, im new and also got this. Got scared af, quickly searched for forums and found this. Im glad it's somewhat normal. What's the deal tho? From what i've researched, it seems it's someone spamming the blockchain, but for what?

I just got a new one from bitgirl.biz before that it's was from laxotrade and BtcSmart.
But apparently we can't do anything about it, can't refuse an incomming transactions so now it
just sits there as another unspent outputs in my wallet.