Imagine having a $100 bill in your pocket. Now, imagine $100 worth of pennies. Notice the difference?
Bitcoin isn't without its irritating kinks, and tiny bitcoin pieces called "dust" are among the lesser-known. As the analogy above shows, the bitcoin protocol sometimes needs to generate tiny output coins when users send bitcoin back and forth, coins so small in value they require more fees to spend than they're actually worth.
But since blockchain room is limited and small value transactions, say $0.01, still can often take up just as much room as larger transactions, too many of these tinier coin pieces can lead to performance issues in the system as a whole.
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