Jameson Lopp stated that the odds of any single address poisoning attack succeeding are relatively low, but attackers can carry out thousands of attempts cheaply due to low transaction fees

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While the odds of one attack succeeding are relatively low, low transaction fees enable thousands of attacks to be carried out in a relatively short period. Average Bitcoin transaction fees have been relatively low since July 2024, according to The Block's data.

"[The attacks are] a result of the fact that we're in a very low-fee environment," Lopp said when presenting his findings at the MIT Bitcoin Expo. "If we had [high] fees going on, I think that would greatly disincentivize people from doing a lot of these dusting attacks, unless they figured out other ways to increase their attack success rate."