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I recently listened to a podcast that talked about wallet dusting, when they dust your wallet with sats in order to track your funds whenever you move them. The guy in the podcast said that once they do that there’s nothing you can do about it.

Isn’t it the case though that if you are using Sparrow wallet and keeping track of your UTXOs, you would see those mystery sats in their own UTXO, know something weird is going on and just make sure to never mix them with your others?

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TheGrinder 1y ago

Correct. It's all just inputs and outputs. If you think you got dusted, move that input to a new address and be done with it. Probably cost you more than the dust is worth but it's worth it. Also, with some wallets you can select the inputs you put into a transaction. You could lilterally leave the dust in the address if you know what you're doing. Just make sure it never gets added to an output.

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Jones 1y ago

And what will happen if like u use bitcoin like any other currency and spend all utxo + suspicious dust to some other value ?

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TheGrinder 1y ago

I guess everyone manages their wallet(s) the way they deem fit. I haven't been dusted since the mempool war which lead to the block size war which lead to the Bitcoin shit-forks. Back then spam transactions were quite common.