mystery deposits of 1 satoshi appearing in my wallet

[quone17]

I'm getting it sent to me like every day now.  Then it disappears at some point only to be sent again a day or two later.  This should be like "illegal" or whatever.  They are doing double spends - couldn't they be doing like "one million spends" so they only need 1 satoshi and they are getting all this advertising sending it to millions of addresses?  We gotta stop that BS.

[leckey]

Yeah it's a pain in the arse. But you should be able to safely ignore them and they'll disappear in time. Still better than viagra emails.

[vints998]

Uh Oh, another two have appeared.
They have happened at around the same time as yesterday and using the same address.
Hope this is not a pattern that is going to repeat..........

[whatsthestory]

Excuse me for bothering you but I think I didn't get the point of doing this - is it about attacking the blockchain? Than how they attack it? how is it possible?

[leckey]

Excuse me for bothering you but I think I didn't get the point of doing this - is it about attacking the blockchain? Than how they attack it? how is it possible?

No, it's simply about advertising their website.

[vints998]

Does not seem like a very effective form of advertising. If you look at the transaction at blockchain.info it is "not found".
I would never have known that they came from bit***s unless I had read it here!

[grifferz]

It got you to look into it. It cost them almost nothing to do. That's more reward than many trolls and miscreants require to do their thing.

[THOUROUGH]

a little birdie told me this could be a method for the pigs to ping every bitcoin user?...hmmm =(

[grifferz]

The birdie was incorrect. Since none of the transactions will get confirmed the sender has no idea what happened with any of them.

The rumour going around was that this could be used to link addresses together. That could only happen if you spent these coins in another transaction. Since they will never confirm you will never be spending them. So that doesn't work.

AFAIK the spam/griefer hypothesis is the best anyone has come up with.

[THOUROUGH]

The birdie was incorrect. Since none of the transactions will get confirmed the sender has no idea what happened with any of them.

The rumour going around was that this could be used to link addresses together. That could only happen if you spent these coins in another transaction. Since they will never confirm you will never be spending them. So that doesn't work.

AFAIK the spam/griefer hypothesis is the best anyone has come up with.

what about if/when one satoshi = 1 USD ? eventually we will see them being confirmed...hmmm food for thought ~~~ ;-)

[grifferz]

Unless a large portion of the software running the network is altered to not consider these as non-standard dust transaction within the next few days, no they will not get a confirmation regardless of the fiat value of a satoshi.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=219504.0
Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard'
…
Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
included in a block.