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Dust attacks on El Salvador
423 sats \ 3 comments \ @netstatic 14 May bitcoin
When looking at El Salvador's new mempool site, it was interesting to see someone was sending them dust.
https://bitcoin.gob.sv/tx/b6a2778dad604065cbb53674692d34861cbc0a5c529bd1231e46c10e1333e9f6
The source address of the dust looks like the address of a career spammer. Some of their latest outputs have OP_RETURNs that made me believe these could be rune airdrops, but their spammy activities have started long before runes were even a thing. Anyone have any insights on this address?
https://bitcoin.gob.sv/address/bc1p7ytrn68ft9yvntmras9njjqlf7x4xsx58c8xzqysknz3rn6z9j3qyn7zxx
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 14 May
These are encrypted messages or data.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @quark 14 May
I don't understand what would be the purpose of the dust attack to a known entity. Maybe it is just sending like a support signal? or maybe they have messages included in the transaction data?
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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 14 May
I don't understand what would be the purpose of the dust attack to a known entity.
The usual reason for dust attacks was to try to deanonymize people by giving small amounts of coin that their wallets would spend, revealing connections between different addresses. But in this case El Salvador hasn't even spent a single cent of the fund, so that's not even relevant.
Probably just people advertising runes-type stuff. And just fooling around with their money.
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