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?
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.