What is dust?

šŸŸ¢Dust in cryptocurrencies is an amount of crypto so small that it wonā€™t even be enough to pay the transaction fee.

šŸŸ¢Imagine that you have 1 cent left in your wallet. You wonā€™t be able to buy anything with it, but if you decide to exchange it at a bank for another currency or send it to a friend, the exchange fee will exceed the cost of the cent itself.

šŸŸ¢This example describes the crypto industryā€™s concept of ā€œdustā€ well.

šŸŸ¢Sometimes, a dusting distribution is used by scammers to commit a so-called ā€œdust attack,ā€ which weā€™ll cover soon.

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