WTF? Weird and scary bitcoin transactions after DMN purchase! Help!

I bought some btc from Coinbase and sent it to my wallet on my online PC (I call it my hot wallet). Then I sent it through Bitblender to tumble it and then withdrew it to my offline cold wallet.

When I was ready, I sent my entire cold wallet balance to the market, made the purchase, then withdrew the leftover balance right back to my cold wallet.

All normal so far, same procedure I always follow.

About an hour later, I see a 1 satoshi transfer into one of the addresses in my hot wallet. A second later, another 1 satoshi gets transferred into the same address.

What the hell? It looks like it might have been from Coinbase because the coin I bought from them apparently went to the same address the two satoshis went to .

I was still puzzling over this when three more small transactions hit three addresses in my COLD, OFFLINE wallet!

I'm sill trying to figure out what the blockchain is showing for these transactions.

Who would be sending me dust and why? And how in the Hell could they know how to send to my hot AND cold addresses? Is Coinbase investigating me? Bitblender? FBI? NSA? Martians?

Any opinions or help?


Comments


[12 Points] plutocracy_pls:

I think someone (or multiple people) are spamming recently used addresses. Myself and others have noticed similar transactions. Why they are doing this is anyone's guess. Chill. Public addresses can only receive. However, if the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA is responsible, they may be attempting to track where the dust ends up. Commence paranoid speculation.


[4 Points] None:

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[4 Points] c23gooey:

i noticed the same thing a couple of days ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2i27ll/strange_transaction_from_localbitcoins/


[4 Points] Borax:

You can send coins to a public address any time because it is public. The point of a cold address is that coin's can't be transferred out by hackers because the private key can not be accessed remotely.


[2 Points] SgtFaecesProcessor:

If you don't have any coins of value in these wallets dump the wallets and create new ones?


[1 Points] Simcom:

you're getting satoshi spam, happens all the time, nothing to worry about. Usually someone is trying to advertise a product or phish for passwords so they send thousands of people a single satoshi with an attached message. Nothing to worry about :)


[0 Points] chrisidone:

Yeah I got this recently too. I wouldn't be too worried.


[0 Points] None:

I had this happen two days ago... on a wallet that has BTC that never has been used in any DNM (transferred from one exchange to another). Just create another wallet and move coins to the new wallet just to be safe.


[0 Points] bobandmargaret:

I've had about 6 of these. Thanks for the Satoshis.

BAM


[-1 Points] mad87645:

Martians?

Fucking Marvin man, always messing with my wallets and shit.


[0 Points] None:

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[-1 Points] None:

I think it's advertising. is there any text associated with the transaction?


[-2 Points] UKediblez:

If they're hitting both cold and hot addresses then your mixer isn't doing a very good job.


[-3 Points] polvb:

2spooky4me


[-8 Points] NSAWatchesMe:

You guys are the easiest bunch of criminals that any government agency could catch. I'm sure law enforcement check this entire subreddit and laugh their asses off.

Hey Bill, look at these fools posting all their information about how they acquire illegal drugs. Should we bust them now or wait a bit since they keep telling us everything?

Let's wait it out...actually just bookmark it and we will bust these idiots later.


[-27 Points] jrizzyg:

i didnt read any of that but most likely youll be fine man