Just putting the source address so that it comes up in search
1FFirnLctcZxVx5otnLNZ4dDGUkMBM4vNr
Topic: Someone sending out MilliBits - page 3. (Read 16403 times)
So, my guess is it's something with tainting other coins.
Users of bitcoind / bitcoin-qt can fight back against this by using Peter Todd's (retep on BCT) dust-b-gone script which will CoinJoin away the dust in your wallet, both cleaning up the blockchain and thwarting any tainting efforts. 
Also, one scenario could be that people receive (milli)bitcoins and go on send them elsewhere. When you send a transaction out, you publish your (real) public key (which is something different to your public bitcoin address). If the privat+public key pair was created insecurely, the attacker ow knows the public key and might be able to steal all funds from that address.
BUT: Why the heck does the attacker here send millibits to addresses which already did transactions? Where the public key is already published and known?
So, this can't really be the reason.
Analyzing who owns which addresses? Doesn't really make sense, with just a handfull he scraped from bitcointalk and similar.
So, my guess is it's something with tainting other coins.
Ente
BUT: Why the heck does the attacker here send millibits to addresses which already did transactions? Where the public key is already published and known?
So, this can't really be the reason.
Analyzing who owns which addresses? Doesn't really make sense, with just a handfull he scraped from bitcointalk and similar.
So, my guess is it's something with tainting other coins.
Ente
sorry can this be simplified for me 
Tiny amounts of Bitcoin are potentially being used to track who owns which addresses.
sorry can this be simplified for me
..that person is on it again.
Check this out:
https://blockchain.info/address/1FFirnLctcZxVx5otnLNZ4dDGUkMBM4vNr
The outputs are totally random - even satoshidice and deepbit are on the list. Several thousands there, it seems.
Well, thanks for the 10c. Good luck with messing with my vanitygen address. *shrugs*
Ente
Check this out:
https://blockchain.info/address/1FFirnLctcZxVx5otnLNZ4dDGUkMBM4vNr
The outputs are totally random - even satoshidice and deepbit are on the list. Several thousands there, it seems.
Well, thanks for the 10c. Good luck with messing with my vanitygen address. *shrugs*
Ente
https://blockchain.info/tx/90087eef265335c807ae2559793913e57321765462a2abcb58027e6751eb58e6
I wonder why they're giving to random addresses like this.
I wonder why they're giving to random addresses like this.
They are trying to entice the addresses to consolidate the funds, thus proving linkages between addresses in order to defeat pseudonymity.
Before the RNG bug was well known, some people were also using this technique to trying to entice spends from addresses from devices with weak RNG so they can perform a private key disclosure.
Will
So what you're saying is, if you suspect someone is enticing you to consolidate funds, you should probably move the funds to an exchange and cash them out and buy back in, or move your bitcoins through a coin mixer before moving them again?
or just leave the extra bitcoins in there until you actually want to spend the bitcoins.
Will
So what you're saying is, if you suspect someone is enticing you to consolidate funds, you should probably move the funds to an exchange and cash them out and buy back in, or move your bitcoins through a coin mixer before moving them again?
https://blockchain.info/tx/90087eef265335c807ae2559793913e57321765462a2abcb58027e6751eb58e6
I wonder why they're giving to random addresses like this.
I wonder why they're giving to random addresses like this.
They are trying to entice the addresses to consolidate the funds, thus proving linkages between addresses in order to defeat pseudonymity.
Before the RNG bug was well known, some people were also using this technique to trying to entice spends from addresses from devices with weak RNG so they can perform a private key disclosure.
Will
https://blockchain.info/tx/90087eef265335c807ae2559793913e57321765462a2abcb58027e6751eb58e6
I wonder why they're giving to random addresses like this.
I wonder why they're giving to random addresses like this.
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