weird transaction

[bitcoinpeddler]

So I opened my wallet today and someone sent me two deposits of 0.00000546 btc
I am trying to identify who or why someone would send me btc randomly. my address is not posted anywhere online besides block explorers

The transaction is : 39b54f4e10800672a5f201cf3ff81d471274b4cff4d4423d35cf14eb4d2ff026

The weirder thing is he seems to send out thousands of transactions to active btc addresses.
Is this just generosity or something else?

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[pooya87]

others* have been reporting the same transactions in their wallets too. and whatever it is, it is not generosity because the amount is too low. if you ask me i think it is another way of spam attacking bitcoin. the fact that they are sending the smallest amount possible makes me think that is the case. they are basically creating outputs that nobody is going to spend without having to pay more fee than they get so that transaction will remain as an unspent output in your database forever.

* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5101691.0

[bitcoinpeddler]

thanks for the reply i see now its not quite as free as i thought as it would be difficult to spend those sats, i guess it just another bitcoin mystery of sorts.

[joniboini]

i guess it just another bitcoin mystery of sorts.

It's not a bitcoin mystery, it's just there's someone who makes a lot of small transaction for deanonymization purpose or those who want to clog the network with an unnecessary transaction. It's best if you just ignore it and don't use it as your input. If you use Samourai Wallet, you should get a dust attack notifications if there's a transaction like this.

[kingpin4321]

Probably satoshi giving out satoshi's
What ever reason it may be if I where to be the one the right thing would be to return it since you do not know the intention of who ever is sending it. It could be under duress, or by someone else or possibly just an error what ever reason it may be.

[Lucius]

All transactions associated with this 546 satoshi donations come from the same address, and by checking who is behind this address ( 1ViViGLEawN27xRzGrEhhYPQrZiTKvKLo ), we can find source of these strange transactions.

Vivigle is a global crypto Ratings and Analytics Platform for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin

They are using this method for some analytics and also for advertising their tokens. I can say that this method is only confuses users, since most of them including OP ask what is actually happening. Few years ago there is similar dust transaction attack, and I get such transaction few times, then it just stop.

More info about Vivigle : https://vivigle.com/

[Harlot]

That's a weird way to advertise their business I mean they are mostly spending nothing but if they are doing this multiple times everyday it all adds up, the transaction ID given by the OP shows that they have sent 0.00000546 BTC to 2800 addresses which is around 50$ in just one transaction, again might not be much if you are just thinking it in one transaction but if its a lot then they are spending thousands of dollars and they way they do that is they are just producing more confusion to their receivers, some of them might not even be active wallets anymore.

[greenlanternlight01]

So I opened my wallet today and someone sent me two deposits of 0.00000546 btc
I am trying to identify who or why someone would send me btc randomly. my address is not posted anywhere online besides block explorers

The transaction is : 39b54f4e10800672a5f201cf3ff81d471274b4cff4d4423d35cf14eb4d2ff026

The weirder thing is he seems to send out thousands of transactions to active btc addresses.
Is this just generosity or something else?

That's someone spamming the network. Just not sure why. Maybe they are doing some kind of test

[Lassie]

So I opened my wallet today and someone sent me two deposits of 0.00000546 btc
I am trying to identify who or why someone would send me btc randomly. my address is not posted anywhere online besides block explorers

The transaction is : 39b54f4e10800672a5f201cf3ff81d471274b4cff4d4423d35cf14eb4d2ff026

The weirder thing is he seems to send out thousands of transactions to active btc addresses.
Is this just generosity or something else?

That's someone spamming the network. Just not sure why. Maybe they are doing some kind of test

That could be called spam but it is just a small scale spam and it doesn't affect the network like the previous spams which result to memory pool having around 100mb in size of transactions waiting for confirmation. Currently there is only around 3mb in memory pool

[Hivalley]

What the purpose of such strange transactions is remains a sort of a mystery to me,but deep down it just doesn't feel right,and I suspect something shady or dishonest about it
Probably this is a new means to scam people,but how can they do so by sending out satoshi's
I'll advice you totally ignore it for now

[Velkro]

if you ask me i think it is another way of spam attacking bitcoin. the fact that they are sending the smallest amount possible makes me think that is the case.

Agree, it will happen from time to time because people can greatly benefit from disrupting bitcoin network so they will try forever .
Worry not, Bitcoin is secure and brightest minds working on it.

[jademaxsuy]

They might be planning something bigger than sending small amounts of satoshis to differents wallet address and they have to test it out first or they want to try to disrupt the bitcoin network as stated by velkro but I don't think they can disrupt the network.