<p>I would consider running them all through a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mixer</a></p>

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2023-05-21T09:12:47.520Z
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RedGrittyBrick
<p>Long ago, when Bitcoin was only a geeky novelty with very little fiat value, I mined some BTC in a mining pool. There were several transactions resulting in (fractions of) newly generated coins sent to my single address.</p>
<p>I recently found my old private key and swept it into a new wallet. Looking at the blockchain explorer, I now see that a few of the old address' inputs were single-Satoshi dust transactions.</p>
<p>I understand that I could have simply not spent those specific UTXO's, but now it's too late. Is there any method for me to minimize any privacy (correlation / de-anonymization) issues now that it's done?</p>

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I've combined dust with other, valuable UTXO's. Can I de-link them?
bitsmack
# I've combined dust with other, valuable UTXO's. Can I de-link them?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-05-21)

Long ago, when Bitcoin was only a geeky novelty with very little fiat value, I mined some BTC in a mining pool. There were several transactions resulting in (fractions of) newly generated coins sent to my single address.

I recently found my old private key and swept it into a new wallet. Looking at the blockchain explorer, I now see that a few of the old address' inputs were single-Satoshi dust transactions.

I understand that I could have simply not spent those specific UTXO's, but now it's too late. Is there any method for me to minimize any privacy (correlation / de-anonymization) issues now that it's done?

**Tags:** privacy, forced-address-reuse


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-05-21. Score: 1

I would consider running them all through a [mixer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler)


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