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

[jimhsu]

I'm guessing that if this isn't a marketing effort, it's an attempt to associate identity with addresses - if someone receives these and replies in the affirmative with an address, well there's a hit. I'm guessing the effect is also temporal in nature (i.e target addresses within a certain balance range, certain hash range, or of a certain age to try to capture hits where the intended target doesn't respond with a specific address). For this reason, I won't reply whether I received these transactions, or what type of addresses could have received them. All I can conclude is that not every address is targeted -- anyone can verify that my public address below has not received these transactions.

If people remember their history, this is sort of like cribbing as it applied back in WWII (now called a "known-plaintext attack"). In those days, the Allies made strenuous efforts to get Germans to produce messages with known content (i.e. location of a mine, or flying a spy plane in a particular trajectory), so that the Enigma cipher could be attacked.

[dyask]

I'm guessing that if this isn't a marketing effort, it's an attempt to associate identity with addresses - if someone receives these and replies in the affirmative with an address, well there's a hit. I'm guessing the effect is also temporal in nature (i.e target addresses within a certain balance range, or of a certain age to try to capture hits where the intended target doesn't respond with a specific address). For this reason, I won't reply whether I received these transactions, or what type of addresses could have received them.

If people remember their history, this is sort of like cribbing as it applied back in WWII (now called a "known-plaintext attack"). In those days, the Allies made strenuous efforts to get Germans to produce messages with known content (i.e. location of a mine, or flying a spy plane in a particular trajectory), so that the Enigma cipher could be attacked.

That seems possible ... in any case I transferred out of the wallet and am now using a new wallet.   Frankly I'm amazed that people so freely post public addresses.   I for one don't want people to know which wallet belongs to me.   

[jimhsu]

I'm guessing that if this isn't a marketing effort, it's an attempt to associate identity with addresses - if someone receives these and replies in the affirmative with an address, well there's a hit. I'm guessing the effect is also temporal in nature (i.e target addresses within a certain balance range, or of a certain age to try to capture hits where the intended target doesn't respond with a specific address). For this reason, I won't reply whether I received these transactions, or what type of addresses could have received them.

If people remember their history, this is sort of like cribbing as it applied back in WWII (now called a "known-plaintext attack"). In those days, the Allies made strenuous efforts to get Germans to produce messages with known content (i.e. location of a mine, or flying a spy plane in a particular trajectory), so that the Enigma cipher could be attacked.

That seems possible ... in any case I transferred out of the wallet and am now using a new wallet.   Frankly I'm amazed that people so freely post public addresses.   I for one don't want people to know which wallet belongs to me.   

Exactly the thing though -- from cursory checking of a few cases for other people's addresses, it seems like public addresses are not in fact targeted to the same extent (what with people reporting cold wallet "attacks"). Your public addresses are known; therefore, this seems like an attempt to map "private" to public addresses.

[grifferz]

Linking addresses requires you to spend these coins. As they will never be confirmed, you won't be spending them. So that is not the purpose (or if it was the purpose, it won't work).

[technocoma]

Got lots of random ones across quite a few addresses. Wondered what they were.

[runam0k]

None have confirms, so when will they disappear from my wallets?

[CryptoVortex]

These transactions will confirm eventually.

They are almost certainly intended to defeat pseudonymity.  This is discussed extensively in other threads.  There is also  free software available to get rid of them, at least for bitcoin-qt.

With regards to the original question about how many people have received these, I think it might be easier to ask who has conducted a bitcoin transaction over the past week and has not received any gifts of this one-Satoshi-spam.  It seems that whomever is sending these is spamming the entire blockchain.

[vga]

Mine go away if I "Reset Blockchain and Transactions".

[URSAY]

These transactions will confirm eventually.

No.  I believe they will disappear in many cases.

[vmmo96]

hmm...

[technocoma]

I believe people were changing a setting on bitcoin-qt wallet to not include unconfirmed coins in the balance as a sort of work around.

[gbgamer]

not I, but would welcome a few of those 

[roslinpl]

I got 2 of them.  F'in sh!t up!

that was how they spam network...

I did not get any

[Lauda]

Didn't receive a single one.

[DubFX]

I did get it too.

[Chellger]

I join the club! 1enjoy showed up on my Mobilephone-Wallet yesterday. Kinda felt scary.

[luv2drnkbr]

Mother fucking these enjoy sochi spams are getting fucking annoying

[ljudotina]

Just got 2 of those to one of my wallets....interesting...

[joae1975]

I moved the private keys of those wallets to another wallet so it doesn't bother me.

[Trance]

I've received many transactions with .000000000 literally showing nothing but advertising the Vanity address being sent from~