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Topic: Somebody has sent me 0.00000003 BTC (Read 7983 times)

member
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Hi.
October 29, 2014, 09:04:46 PM
#61
Spam.
member
Activity: 66
Merit: 10
October 29, 2014, 08:44:09 PM
#60
calm down. its just spam dude.
legendary
Activity: 1204
Merit: 1028
October 29, 2014, 04:00:02 PM
#59
Anyone else free from the Laxo Trade spam? I havent gotten any in a while.
legendary
Activity: 1890
Merit: 1086
Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer
October 29, 2014, 08:44:02 AM
#58
Not sure if such 100-btc mistake/refund happened before, but I have read a few cases of people making mistakes in raw transactions, paying huge tx fee (a few btc), and getting refund from the mining pools.

Indeed I actually did pay (at the time) the biggest transaction fee (around 110 BTC from memory) due to doing a raw transaction after days of working 15+ hours (so a stupid mistake) and was luckily refunded at least 100 BTC of it (I forget the exact figure but it's recorded on this forum somewhere).

If the OP is worried about the silly dust amount you can do a combination of "setting your fee" and "coin-control" to "get rid of it". You can see I did this here: https://blockchain.info/tx/4fc1db306120a944324b78e4a299591a61fbc1eeed91bc5b3292d0a2420cec35
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
October 29, 2014, 08:38:32 AM
#57
Bitcoin spam. There's nothing to worry about.
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 500
October 29, 2014, 05:10:13 AM
#56
Sexy Spam using Bitcoin  Kiss... don't worry because transactions are public and so your address can be visible to everyone, but don't worry because it's very difficult to associate an address to a person.
legendary
Activity: 3402
Merit: 1227
Top Crypto Casino
October 29, 2014, 03:13:06 AM
#55
just don't spend it all at one place
sr. member
Activity: 406
Merit: 250
October 29, 2014, 02:59:09 AM
#54
Personaly, I don't know but if i was you I will change adresse its more safe.

You don't need to worry about the safety your bitcoin. The spamming tx has nothing to do with stealing your bitcoin.
You should never re-use your addresses for better privacy whether there are spamming tx or not.
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
October 28, 2014, 11:08:33 AM
#53
this have happened to me to some have sent me 1000 satoshi a while back with some site in the discription.
full member
Activity: 476
Merit: 100
October 28, 2014, 10:00:11 AM
#52
Personaly, I don't know but if i was you I will change adresse its more safe.
member
Activity: 106
Merit: 10
October 13, 2014, 12:09:40 PM
#51
Maybe it's spam, but nothing to worry about it. Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 252
Merit: 250
October 13, 2014, 10:38:49 AM
#50
yeah its spam... lol
hero member
Activity: 882
Merit: 1000
October 13, 2014, 06:46:09 AM
#49
I wonder if someone ever sent 100 btc to an address it wasnt supposed to go to..  Huh
Would you return it?

Absolutely I would.  To do anything less would be to sacrifice my ethics and morals and become a thief.

Not sure if such 100-btc mistake/refund happened before, but I have read a few cases of people making mistakes in raw transactions, paying huge tx fee (a few btc), and getting refund from the mining pools.

full member
Activity: 212
Merit: 101
October 12, 2014, 09:17:52 PM
#48
Not me! Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1000
October 12, 2014, 07:56:15 PM
#47
Size of the transaction (bytes) = 148 * number_of_inputs + 34 * number_of_outputs + 10
0.0001 BTC is required as transaction fees for 1000 bytes
http://bitcoinfees.com/
hero member
Activity: 619
Merit: 500
October 12, 2014, 08:59:31 AM
#46
This is just someone advertising some bs. Just make sure that you don't spend all that 3 satoshis in one place though! It can be very rewarding for people to send out advertisement spam like that, 1 satoshi is only worth $0.0000035. So if they use 10 dollars worth of btc and send that out, they can send out that to 2,857,142 people. Pretty effective use of advertising if I don't say so myself.

Fees might change those numbers though. I think it's possible to pay multiple addresses at once in a single transaction and pay only a single fee. Not sure if it would be possible to send 1 satoshi to millions of people in this way however.

Since bitcoin fee is calculated per transaction size (in unit of KB) rather than per transaction, fitting a huge amount of outputs in one single transaction wouldn't help much.

Also, according to the formula found on http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1195/how-to-calculate-transaction-size-before-sending, a transaction with 1 million outputs will have a size of over 34 MB which is way over the current block size limit 1MB.
sr. member
Activity: 406
Merit: 250
October 11, 2014, 09:46:24 AM
#45
This is just someone advertising some bs. Just make sure that you don't spend all that 3 satoshis in one place though! It can be very rewarding for people to send out advertisement spam like that, 1 satoshi is only worth $0.0000035. So if they use 10 dollars worth of btc and send that out, they can send out that to 2,857,142 people. Pretty effective use of advertising if I don't say so myself.

Fees might change those numbers though. I think it's possible to pay multiple addresses at once in a single transaction and pay only a single fee. Not sure if it would be possible to send 1 satoshi to millions of people in this way however.
hero member
Activity: 700
Merit: 500
October 10, 2014, 12:21:23 PM
#44
This is just someone advertising some bs. Just make sure that you don't spend all that 3 satoshis in one place though! It can be very rewarding for people to send out advertisement spam like that, 1 satoshi is only worth $0.0000035. So if they use 10 dollars worth of btc and send that out, they can send out that to 2,857,142 people. Pretty effective use of advertising if I don't say so myself.
legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 4801
October 10, 2014, 11:33:44 AM
#43
I wonder if someone ever sent 100 btc to an address it wasnt supposed to go to..  Huh
Would you return it?

Absolutely I would.  To do anything less would be to sacrifice my ethics and morals and become a thief.
full member
Activity: 140
Merit: 100
October 10, 2014, 11:28:45 AM
#42


I like to think I would but I would but I would want some kind of decent reward because if the tables were turned
I would be extremely grateful to the person who is willing to return my btc. 
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