If spent by itself, it won't be profitable.  You can't get it, profitably, by sending it to your own wallet.  Besides, most nodes won't relay a transaction that transfers a single scrap of dust.

What you have to do to make it profitable is include it in a transaction that you're sending to someone else - where you'd be paying the transaction fee anyway, and the extra input makes no extra fee.

Right.  The transaction has to be tiny (few inputs - any amount of BTC) to stay under the 1-kilobyte threshold so it doesn't cost extra fees.  If you're making a transaction that already uses four inputs or more, then it'll be over that kilobyte and the extra input will cost according to its size. 

That's hillarious.  How much did you win on the bet (I hope more than 9776 satoshis )?

I'd love to see the distribution of times to claim free bitcoin dust amounts.  Unfortunately, I can't afford to run the experiment.

This really is hilarious.  Whoever did it has a sense of humor.

I can tell because they sent one satoshi back to me as change at the address I have in my signature.

That's awesome.  It's kinda too bad that they didn't send the 1 satoshi change back to the same known private key, then we could see if anyone want to pick up 1 free satoshi.


Nice connection, although that's not a circle unless Lazlo buys another pizza for 10KBTC.  I'd say it's a belleweather of higher btc prices and many pizzas for the hodlers.

Don't see the 1 satoshi you mentioned. Looks like the entire input was taken.

That's odd.  My bitcoin-qt wallet is claiming I have one satoshi.  I didn't have a transaction ID yet, so I thought it was real. 

Help me understand this, Sho, what is blockmonster trying to tell me here?  How can I interpret that really long number he produced?

Got it!  And I verified the message as well.  He got your 9776 Satoshis (and you got a pizza from your friend).

I recognized that the signature was in base 64 (those = signs, etc) not in bitcoin base 58, and transactions ids are usually written in hex, I don't know I didn't realize he was signing a message.

Cheers!