BITCOIN DUST, ALTCOIN DUST

[GREEDYJOHN]

Hi all.

What can we do to prevent being tracked by Bitcoin dust or Altcoin dust?

Is it possible to configure our clients so that they do not receive these tiny transactions?

[mocacinno]

no, but depending on your client you *can* freeze or lock the unspent outputs funding your address with tiny unspent inputs.

In electrum, make sure you activate the "coins" tab, right click on the unspent output you want to lock, and choose "freeze"
In bitcoin core run as a daemon (non-qt gui, but using bitcoin-cli), you can use lockunspent. I don't know if the QT gui also has a similar function.

[Pmalek]

You can't prevent an address from receiving coins but you can use options such as coin control to prevent your wallet from spending certain inputs.
Additionally if use Electrum for example you can tick which inputs you want to use in your transactions and just don't tick the dust inputs.

Edit: seems mocacinno was a bit faster!

[Atrax]

Hi all.

What can we do to prevent being tracked by Bitcoin dust or Altcoin dust?

Is it possible to configure our clients so that they do not receive these tiny transactions?

Isn't the dusting attack _more_ than just an academical thought?