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Dust Attack

security.dust-attack

A dust attack sends trace-value outputs to targets so later spending can link their wallets or contaminate coin-control decisions. It exploits the gap between a policy threshold for tiny outputs and the privacy meaning of spending them.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Dev Project: Dust Attack explained (article) Learner-facing explanation of dusting as a privacy attack.
• Bitcoin Developer Guide: Transactions (article) Canonical context for dust thresholds and transaction output policy.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Reference background for UTXOs, transaction construction, and privacy tradeoffs.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Dust Policy
• Pseudonymity (Not Anonymity)

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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