Re: Dust Attack, what it is, why it is dangerous and how to prevent falling to it
⭐ Merited by Hueristic (1)
My Fellow friend xhomerx10 noticed I fell for a dust attack:
At the times, I already noticed the transaction, labelled it, and froze the UTXO as unspendable.
Not that he could have don some major damage, as the address wasn't even empty. But better to be sure.
While doing a tiny bit of wallet maintenance today I discovered something strange
I did a little digging and some searching and I found that disgraced user naim027 had a short stint running a lending service; the repayment address was: 18HfvLNNsZdMZeXmyKg59AfG7n4d1ibKRU (as posted here)
which on 9/14/2022 @ 12:24:14 transferred a small amount of bitcoin to this address: bc1qw0qsvzuxgmyqvc6mcaqw77v3sd9jt0lppcxkn6
which on 9/23/2022 @ 24:14:25 transferred most of that amount to this adress: bc1qy4ta9wtwufm3d56tqrys3wh50q7fmd7p0g0z6n
which on 9/23/2022 @ 24:28:50 dispersed ~0.00005 BTC to each of the following users at their publicly posted addresses -
fillippone: bc1qd7rqlrw5h4q3g2x45xacd72zshcm2dht2ztclh
Chartbuddy: 1CBuddyxy4FerT3hzMmi1Jz48ESzRw1ZzZ
Gachapin: 1L1KknC9sGqr6CUuZzEME3V8YPSfLqLRoM
Ivonm: 38s6Ku7BMThahWcSQQLwnM9K1U5GWF5Rkk
JayJuanGee: 35EVP8EePt8dyvKHaB7bXaRmKLm22YgRCA
OutOfMemory: bc1qhy8gjn9klgmtlx08a2cpruq9dkv0tvqhv5x5lk
OgNasty: 168WXhArv7Fasqvi2xm5MQMfLhG18jifMe
Richy_T: 1RichyTrEwPYjZSeAYxeiFBNnKC9UjC5k
El duderino_: 19X5vZE8KGZ6YgtSkJmZEryDgX24tg6amR
xhomerx10: 1RoMaNiAjSGeGsYJzPjsLUGogbDEsK4TZ
I'm not sure what naim027 is up to nor would I trust any answer from him but I did not request his dust. This dust can be used to track future transactions and potentially deanonymize you. It's probably a good idea to freeze the UTXO associated with this tx to make sure it never gets spent. Hopefully the rest of you either caught it already or have not yet transacted using that UTXO.
I did a little digging and some searching and I found that disgraced user naim027 had a short stint running a lending service; the repayment address was: 18HfvLNNsZdMZeXmyKg59AfG7n4d1ibKRU (as posted here)
which on 9/14/2022 @ 12:24:14 transferred a small amount of bitcoin to this address: bc1qw0qsvzuxgmyqvc6mcaqw77v3sd9jt0lppcxkn6
which on 9/23/2022 @ 24:14:25 transferred most of that amount to this adress: bc1qy4ta9wtwufm3d56tqrys3wh50q7fmd7p0g0z6n
which on 9/23/2022 @ 24:28:50 dispersed ~0.00005 BTC to each of the following users at their publicly posted addresses -
fillippone: bc1qd7rqlrw5h4q3g2x45xacd72zshcm2dht2ztclh
Chartbuddy: 1CBuddyxy4FerT3hzMmi1Jz48ESzRw1ZzZ
Gachapin: 1L1KknC9sGqr6CUuZzEME3V8YPSfLqLRoM
Ivonm: 38s6Ku7BMThahWcSQQLwnM9K1U5GWF5Rkk
JayJuanGee: 35EVP8EePt8dyvKHaB7bXaRmKLm22YgRCA
OutOfMemory: bc1qhy8gjn9klgmtlx08a2cpruq9dkv0tvqhv5x5lk
OgNasty: 168WXhArv7Fasqvi2xm5MQMfLhG18jifMe
Richy_T: 1RichyTrEwPYjZSeAYxeiFBNnKC9UjC5k
El duderino_: 19X5vZE8KGZ6YgtSkJmZEryDgX24tg6amR
xhomerx10: 1RoMaNiAjSGeGsYJzPjsLUGogbDEsK4TZ
I'm not sure what naim027 is up to nor would I trust any answer from him but I did not request his dust. This dust can be used to track future transactions and potentially deanonymize you. It's probably a good idea to freeze the UTXO associated with this tx to make sure it never gets spent. Hopefully the rest of you either caught it already or have not yet transacted using that UTXO.
At the times, I already noticed the transaction, labelled it, and froze the UTXO as unspendable.
Not that he could have don some major damage, as the address wasn't even empty. But better to be sure.