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Board Nigeria (Naija)
Re: Dust attacks, use cases and Protective measures
by
Africolo
on 08/09/2025, 21:24:54 UTC
- Use of modern wallets: Thankfully, some modern wallets like electrum has features that allows you to mark the dust input as "Do Not Spend" which would prevent you from accidentally spending them in the future.

- Migrate funds: You can choose to create a new wallet and migrate other inputs to a new address, leaving the dust behind.

-Using COIN CONTROL features: You can opt to use COIN CONTROL feature to enable you manually select the UTXOs to spend, although this is an advanced feature and needs good understanding to use it.


Contributions and corrections are highly welcome Cool

The Dust Threasom feature on Wasabi wallet safeguard the wallet from dust attack better; this feature allows you to set the minimum of Sats you want to receive in your wallet, since dust attack are usually very tiny amounts of Sats, you can set your Dust Threasom limit to $2-$3 worth of Sats, this way your wallet will not receive anything less than $3 worth of Sats. This saves you from using coin control to navigate through wallets looking for dust coins.

I've been expecting some other software wallets to implement this features for a long time but it hasn't happened yet.