Can I 'delete' useless tokens from my wallet?

[lahiruu]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

[mocacinno]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins  

Sure, you can send them to whatever address you want, but why? You'll use gas for no good reason... I have about 10 dead tokens, i really don't care. I just ignore them.

[mu_enrico]

I think the better solution is to use a new (safer) address for your ETH and leave worthless ERC20 tokens in the old address. That way, you only move your coin once.

Or you can set your wallet to not displaying your worthless tokens; in other words, your tokens are still there but not displayed.

[lahiruu]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins  

Sure, you can send them to whatever address you want, but why? You'll use gas for no good reason... I have about 10 dead tokens, i really don't care. I just ignore them.

Makes sense, thanks! I just wanted to clean it up a little in the Etherscan drop down, so I don't need to search so much for tokens I care about

[Metall303]

You will have to spend ETH to pay the commission. but if these coins disturb you then, of course, you can do it. I don’t understand why people want to do this. you can simply hide these coins in MEW and not see them.

[yazher]

Yes! you can by sending them to unknown addresses but as you can see, this method requires you to pay some transaction fees. this is the only method that works. But keeping them in your wallet would be a good idea cause what if their developers will continue the project 5-10 years by now? that would make the price of their dead token pump and what if their price became like the other top altcoins in the market? and you have a huge amount of it. that would make you a millionaire in no time. If you are annoyed by looking at the huge list of shit coins in your wallet, better to make a new one and preserved that old wallet maybe you can just open it once every 6 months to check.

[Emilyearl]

No mate. That's not possible rather what you will have to do is create another wallet address, send tokens you wish not to see in your main wallet to the new address by so doing, you get to see only tokens you want in your main wallet. There's no option to delete or remove tokens on the blockchain aside transferring it to another wallet address.

[Sultanar484]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

In my wallet, there are few dead tokens but i can't delete anyway. Probably you can't delete tokens from wallet. You can only send dead tokens to other wallet but it needs gas fee which is boring for you and your time waste. You can keep them forever in your wallet.

[bitmover]

Sure, you can send them to whatever address you want, but why? You'll use gas for no good reason... I have about 10 dead tokens, i really don't care. I just ignore them.

I believe he is talking about Meta Maska or MEW or some other wallet interface.

I found a tutorial here about how to hide the tokens you don't want to see anymore.
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/4482

There is no need to spend gas sending them.

[lahiruu]

Sure, you can send them to whatever address you want, but why? You'll use gas for no good reason... I have about 10 dead tokens, i really don't care. I just ignore them.

I believe he is talking about Meta Maska or MEW or some other wallet interface.

I found a tutorial here about how to hide the tokens you don't want to see anymore.
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/4482

There is no need to spend gas sending them.

Thank you! This is great, but I should have clarified in the OP. I was looking to remove them from my wallet address when I view it on Etherscan. In hindsight, of course this isn't possible and it looks like the way to get rid of them will be to send them to a dead/unused wallet. Although the transaction fees might only add up to a few $, I think I'll avoid and save my ETH.

Thanks everyone!

[BitcoinTurk]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

If you are talking about ERC20 tokens, yes, you can delete tokens that you do not want in your wallet. But I do not understand why you want to do such a thing, although it is a terrible project, it will not make much sense to delete it. Maybe one day those tokens you delete will inflate like balloons and then you will feel regret, who knows. I do not recommend you to delete it but if you really want to do this deletion, you can delete it by sending your tokens to the address I have specified below. I would like to remind you to check the balance of the burn wallet address I gave before performing the deletion and that you will lose your possible earning opportunity in the future. Maybe the balances in this address will give you up for deletion.

Dead Token Address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead

[Eclipse26]

Technically speaking, no, we cannot delete 'dead' coins in our wallet like it is a social media account that we no longer use unless it is ERC20 tokens, maybe? Kidding aside, as what have been said on thr earlier posts of other users you can send your coins into unknown addresses but their would be a gas money which would be some kind of a hassle. I suggest keeping them as a remembrance. You are not the only one being in such situation. I also have many dead coins, and I doubt others don't especially those who are here for years already. Most of the dead coins I have, are from bounty projects way back 2017 before the huge decline occurred. I have no choice but to keep them with quite of a hope that those coins will have a value someday, if there would be a miracle which would lift the market in general. Selling those coins would be a waste of time at this moment. You would rathet get a 'loss' than earning profit from doing so.

[meldrio1]

You can not remove those useless tokens but you can try to sell those tokens in forkdelta if there is a bidder, or you can make a new wallet if you really annoyed those useless tokens.

[blockman]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins  

Sure, you can send them to whatever address you want, but why? You'll use gas for no good reason... I have about 10 dead tokens, i really don't care. I just ignore them.

Makes sense, thanks! I just wanted to clean it up a little in the Etherscan drop down, so I don't need to search so much for tokens I care about

I guess you already have to know the answer and that's the only way to get rid of those annoying dust tokens that came from airdrops or whatsoever giveaways.
You can now lock the thread to avoid repetitive answers.

[Harlot]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

You won't be burdening someone with this method, if you send it on an active address you'll just make the user curious on why he/she have randomly received cryptocurrencies in his address of course there is a chance where your wallet address will be posted online seeking to find answers why this address have sent them free crypto, if you don't care if someone knows your address then go for it. But if you don't want that to happen the best thing to do is to create a new wallet where you will send your shitcoins in.

[fortunecrypto]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

You can send them to oblivion send them to your enemy's address,but who knows two years from now, that shitcoin will have value, I have seen that happen on some few shitcoins get a spare address and put all your shitcoins there, but of course that would means spending gas for those shitcoins, but you can spare some for gas if you don't want to see this annoying coins.

[Iyeman]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

If you don't wanna to burden anyone and just create a new address and send your coins there or try to send it to the default address, a lot of platforms have already used the default address to burn their tokens.
It's better to send them all to the default address.

[Iyanu14]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

Definitely, you're the owner of your wallet now, you can do whatever you like with the dead tokens.  But according to the second respondent, you may need not waste your precious gas on those useless or decorative tokens, if you're using imtoken for example, you can just disable them instead of wasting gas on them.

[bassbity]

Of course you can send shitcoin to the address 0x00000000 without having to burden you, but it all must be done with sufficient gas costs.
And why don't you keep it for a long time because shitcoin can also be of value if one day, but it's up to you what you want to do.

[killerfrost]

Is it possible to remove tokens from dead projects/tokens that are totally useless and worth $0 from my wallet? Do I just send them to a random address? I don't want to burden anyone else with those shitcoins 

Why are you wasting Gas doing those transactions. It is best to leave it in your wallet because it will not affect you at all, maybe one day those tokens will be valid.