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Re: Dust Attack, what it is, why it is dangerous and how to prevent falling to it
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btcduster
on 11/09/2020, 08:26:46 UTC
This is a very interesting read.
I've heard of these attacks before, but I never understood how a person could be threatened.


  • Extremizing: an exchange that offers you $ 30 to register, after KYC, is practically performing a dust attack. Except that in that case, using the chain analysis company you just bought, you can perform a very efficient tracking of your UTXOs. Do you think this is an impossible scenario? it already happened.

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it already happened.

Do you have any references for this information? It would be interesting to read a little about this IRL attack.
Looking at it, this is a threat only to people who have a lot of accumulated coins.

Another scenario,
If I am attacked this way, and then I decide to buy something with these satoshis, and if the buyer eventually puts the coins in their savings address, no one can prove that these coins are mine.

N.B. Quoting a part of a list is awful.