Collect the old dust, it's worth a lot more today..

[mikeywith]

So I was checking old accounts on various different pools that I used before (Antpool, Btc.com, Slushpool and etc.) I realized that I have over $100 worth of BTC dust on some of these pools, I have been on Viabtc for a very long time so the last time I touched any of those pools was probably at the bear market with prices below 6-8k, a 5$ worth of bitcoin when it was at 5k is now 45$, you could be surprised at how much money you left on the old pools you used.

The sad part about this is that the minimum payout isn't reached yet, so I had to point some gears to old pools I thought I left for good.

Remember to change your payout to say 0.5 BTC or turn-off auto-payments so that you won't have to leave dust there again.

Good luck.

[Xavofat]

Great advice.  I had a similar situation where I realised that a tiny amount of BTC I left in the Blockchain.com wallet (which I don't use anymore) almost four years ago turned out to be worth £44 ($61).  Definitely worth going through all your old accounts and seeing if you can get any payments you're receiving to those instead so you can send transactions out to your main wallet without it eating up a huge chunk of all the dust left in there.

It's very much worth it with the mining pools especially since the minimum payout for most of them is as little as 0.001BTC.

[Mesk]

Last week I was cleaning my bookmarks and just opened all of the "Mining" folder just to check if any of old players was still kicking. I left the scene in 2014, after the MtGox problem and apparently I had almost 0,05 BTC just chilling in bitminter pool! Sure, the 0,33 that I transfered from that pool to MtGox in late 2013 worth almost 15k€ were just vanished, but not is lost after all! Check your old pools, great advise! ;-)

[The Sceptical Chymist]

It is definitely good advice if you've got "dust" on various exchanges and still have access to those exchanges.

People always said faucets were a complete waste of time--I remember hearing that back in 2015-16 when bitcoin wasn't worth anywhere near what it is today.  But man....if you'd claimed from faucets and kept all the proceeds right up until the present day, you'd probably have a nice stash.  I'm not even sure if faucets exist anymore.  I know the Coinpot ones closed down not too long ago.

Anyway, definitely keep track of that bitcoin dust.  We're halfway to $100k and I suspect small amounts of satoshis are going to be worth a hell of a lot more in years to come.

[dark1234]

It is definitely good advice if you've got "dust" on various exchanges and still have access to those exchanges.

People always said faucets were a complete waste of time--I remember hearing that back in 2015-16 when bitcoin wasn't worth anywhere near what it is today.  But man....if you'd claimed from faucets and kept all the proceeds right up until the present day, you'd probably have a nice stash.  I'm not even sure if faucets exist anymore.  I know the Coinpot ones closed down not too long ago.

Anyway, definitely keep track of that bitcoin dust.  We're halfway to $100k and I suspect small amounts of satoshis are going to be worth a hell of a lot more in years to come.

when i found out the bitcoin price was almost 100k $ i tried to find some dust on several exchanges but unfortunately some of them remained dust because they were shitcoins whose price did not change and gas costs were incompatible with the income ...
so when the price gets higher maybe just the btc dust is really worth it ....