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Dust outputs

Dust is a policy concept for outputs whose value is uneconomical relative to the cost of spending them under relay policy; dust thresholds are not a consensus rule defining a minimum Bitcoin amount.

Context

Why it matters

Dust is a policy concept for outputs whose value is uneconomical relative to the cost of spending them under relay policy; dust thresholds are not a consensus rule defining a minimum Bitcoin amount.

Canonical knowledge

What California Bitcoin maintains

Dust is a policy concept for outputs whose value is uneconomical relative to the cost of spending them under relay policy; dust thresholds are not a consensus rule defining a minimum Bitcoin amount.

Primary and technical sources

Evidence before assertion

Bitcoin Core documentation

Bitcoin Core

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