An unfortunate user of the Ethereum network made a transaction worth an average of $130. A transaction for which he paid a commission fee of $2,6 million to the miners.
Much has been said until now about the famous transaction carried out by Laszlo Hanyecz, where he paid a total of 10.000 BTC to buy 2 family pizzas. So much so, that on May 22 of each year, the crypto community celebrates this day as the Bitcoin Pizza Day. In celebration of the milestone marked by this transaction, which began Bitcoin as payment.
Now recently, a net user Ethereum He carried out a transaction in which he only transferred 0,5 ETH, for a value equivalent to $133,8. But for which he paid a total commission fee of 10.668,7 ETH, which is equivalent to no less than 2,6 million dollars. Ouch!
There is no doubt that this is the most expensive transaction ever paid on Ethereum and any existing blockchain to date. And although it is presumed that this is a possible human error, many have been attracted to investigate a little more about this operation. This in order to discover if there is any hidden fact behind such a mistake.
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Speculation about the most expensive transaction in Ethereum history
What for many appears to be a tremendous and costly human error, for others means acts of corruption, hacking or alteration for reasons still unknown.
La transaction was made recently in the morning, and was sent to an address provided by Bithumb. A cryptocurrency exchange located in South Korea. Likewise, the transaction was included in a block mined by the company spark pool. An advanced mining pool that provides professional services to miners around the world. Which was the one who received the commission of 2,6 million dollars for processing the transaction.
SparkPool, being a mining pool where several miners participate as a group, must distribute the funds from the commissions (fees) to its miners. Even so, this mining pool has not delivered the funds to date. And as indicated on his official Twitter account, it will not be carried out until the relevant investigations are carried out on this transaction. Since at first glance this is a fairly unusually high transaction.
So far, there is not much information about the user who made the transfer. However, it is known that it had a total balance of 45.997,9 ETH, which is equivalent to around 11,2 million dollars.
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The search for possible assumptions
The SparkPool mining pool urged the community to contribute any type of clues to its email address. Also indicating that he already has experience in handling this type of situation. Because in the past he had to deal with a similar transaction, when a user paid a commission of more than $300.000 for a transaction.
Given SparkPool's statements, the cryptographic community has not been long in coming. One Twitter user suggested that he could be a hacker trying to launder ETH. Others speculate that the transaction was created by a member of the mining pool and then included within the block deliberately.
However, the most widely accepted assumption is that the user was going to transfer the $2,6 million, paying a commission of $100 for it. But, due to fatal human error, he changed the amounts during the transaction.
It is known that transaction fees on Ethereum are fully controlled by users. Therefore, in many cases, they increase the fees paid to miners so that their transactions are prioritized and processed quickly. Although of course, this is no reason to increase rates to an amount as extremely high as this.
Finally, regardless of the reasons that led this user to pay this commission, we must not forget that transactions stored within a blockchain cannot be reversed. So this unfortunate user can lose the millions of dollars that he paid by “error” during the transaction.
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