How many people have received random .00000001 transactions to their wallets?

[joshraban76]

This has happened to be about 3 times. I imagine it is from a address I left on my sig or something. When it happens I almost wish I could reply to the payment and say Hey Thanks

[oceans]

This seems to happen to me all the time, I have one address I use for giveaways/free coins. I always get little transactions through it that I have no idea where they come from lol.
I have never checked to see where there coming from but hey its free money even if its pennies, it covers my transaction fees .

[rpandassociates]

I started getting these yesterday after sending some coin to localbitcoin to sell to someone. I have gotten 4  (0.00000001) transactions since yesterday. Very odd. 

[imBLACKjack]

I hope you all realize that when you post that you got one and the address, you are giving away information they can use to help tie your bitcoin address to an online identity.

My suggestion, just ignore the dust. It likely isn't going to get confirmed.

Instead of doing this you could push a 0 output TX that gives the dust to the miners so they somewhat higher level of TX fees.

[keithers]

I have been receiving more and more of these lately. Usually it immediately follows when I receive a payment to my wallet. They have ranged from 0.00000001 to 0.0001.  The smaller ones dont ever end up confirming and then they disappear,  but the larger ones end up confirming. What is the point?

[keithers]

So is someone manually entering everyones address and sending that little amount of BTC? Whenever i check the blockchain for these dinky deposits, there are always like 100 other addresses that received the same 0.00000001btc

[hilariousandco]

Of course they're not manually doing it; they're using bots. Manually collecting all those addresses and inputting them would take a life time or at least be a full time job.

[keithers]

Of course they're not manually doing it; they're using bots. Manually collecting all those addresses and inputting them would take a life time or at least be a full time job.

What is the point of that? Like what do they get out of it? Its not like its some ad that maybe a few people will click on or something like that

[hilariousandco]

It's exactly that: an advertisement. You and I are talking about them now and this thread is 10 pages long and growing. It will pique people's interest into checking them out.

[grifferz]

What is the point of that? Like what do they get out of it? Its not like its some ad that maybe a few people will click on or something like that

You're asking what the point is, 10 pages into a thread about it. 10 pages of people repeatedly asking what is going on and mentioning the names of the associated sites.

The existence of threads like this is the point of it!