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Dust outputs redeemable with obvious brain wallet keys, for what?
by
grau
on 08/07/2015, 12:57:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (2)
What is the purpose of creating tons of trivially redeemable outputs?
 
See:
https://blockchain.info/address/162TRPRZvdgLVNksMoMyGJsYBfYtB4Q8tM

Anyone could claim the 0.04 BTC there (at the moment) with a key derivable as SHA256("cat").
Rational miner will claim them for themselves, that however leads to a block stuffed with a big transaction like:
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000003dd2fdbb484d6d9c349d644d8bbb3cbfa5e67f639a465fe
since the 0.04 is distributed to hundreds of outputs.

The redemption attempts of non-miner will be included into the mempool by nodes in some non-conflicting combination until they are purged as doublespend.

Is this a troll, a DoS, trying to prove some point or engineered to drive up fees?