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Today I woke up to see an email from Blockchain.info
"A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet."
A mysterious address, 1Enjoy1C4bYBr3tN4sMKxvvJDqG8NkdR4Z, had randomly decided to send me some BTC.
How many BTC did I receive from this anonymous benefactor?

http://f.cl.ly/items/3S240v0Q1r1B40353G3w/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-10%20at%208.12.01%20PM.png

A whopping 1 Satoshi! :D

But in all seriousness, why would someone do this?

Any idea who it was? Where did you post your address? Start a 1 satoshi donation campaign :D I wonder how many people would send just for fun.

This happened to a lot of people recently, it can be used to track which addresses are associated with another. For example, if you send money from your wallet and it includes that satoshi in a transaction, the person that sent the satoshi knows that you also own the other sending address. A way to stop this is to send your coins through a mixer.

Free BTCBTCBTC here yo!  ;D

 http://qoinpro.com/59840c5039c4a3070bad2b9cddf6b09f

Check the transaction in Blockchain. It might be a signed one, with a message.

check the block chain

stop spamming, your link unnecessarily over and over again..! 

It's like an ad. Someone send you one satoshi, you look up the address, and you usually find it leads to a gambling site.

must say a not a bad way to promote , not too expensive and can get few members .

It's not bad when you get something, anything. Sure it would be a great way to advertise if there is a note in the transaction.

A lot of people received a Satoshi, as did I, but weirdly only after I posted in the thread about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=458934.msg507444

Weird. I can't really imagine why someone would do something like this.

Don't spend it all at once ;D

Hahah, so cruel. I`d send it back with 2 satoshi just to slap that person in the face.

Make your own thread or get out -_-

Woohoo, you can get more from my sig :P

I wouldn't agitate them. What if they retaliate and constantly spam you with Satoshis?  :D

I received the same amount from that address as well as another satoshi from 1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC within a minute of that time.

You and thousands of others.

Man that will be worth so much in 10 years. I want to receive one satoshi from a stranger on the internet :'(
Address: 1GYJpxPmYU8iRCBu28mDeYSN3aM6RU9nPh

They never get confirmed so it's pointless.

Tried to, but I dont have enough BTC to pay fee in wallet :D :D

+ it would take years to get some confirmation :)

Precisely. Most miners won't ever include those transactions since they are below the 5430 satoshi limit.

One of them has finally disappeared from my account  ;D 'Enjoy' is still there though.

Enjoy.

Oh I will.

I got a couple of these today too.
Pretty funny.
It would be nice though to see someday a couple Bitcoins appear in my account.
I've always helped others when I could it is kind of scary to be on the other end of it now and in need with how silent it is from those I helped in the past. 

Ah well my 1 satoshi each from Enjoy and Sochi I'm sure will not get confirmed but fun none the less.

I am just interested: can you explain how is this possible or provide a link where is it explained please?

Sounds like BS. It was just spam. How could sending money to an address make it traceable?

Some people in another thread were making out like it was something more sinister. I was worried for a moment.