After many hypotheses about what happened with the strange transactions that occurred in Ethereum, which paid million-dollar commissions to the miners, Ethermine announced that it will distribute the commission received among the miners of the pool.
Ethermine is one of the mining pools that managed to extract the block where one of the mysterious transactions of Ethereum; who paid 2,6 million dollars to the miners at the time of the transaction. To be more specific, Ethermine mined the block that included the second transaction.
Now, to date there are many hypotheses that have been formulated regarding this topic. Many in the crypto community currently believe that this is a case of extortion, where one or more hackers have achieved partial control over the address from where the two transactions occurred. Still, to date, no exchange or escrow company has come forward as a victim in this case. And even more so, no user has been able to prove with valid evidence that he is the owner of the address.
So, it is for this reason that the mining pool Ethermine has made the decision to deliver the fee (commission rate) to the miners who make up your company.
In the post on their official Bitfly Twitter account, Ethermine announced that after 4 days they have not been contacted by the true owner of the funds. Emphasizing that this is an appropriate time taking into account the amount of the transaction.
Let us remember that this second transaction was carried out to transfer an amount of more than 86 thousand dollars at the time it was carried out. Therefore, added to the 2,6 million dollars paid in commission, the total expense was almost 2,7 million dollars. A sum not inconsiderable at all.
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Who or who are the victims of these cases?
Ethermine indicated that to date, several users have come to the pool claiming to be the owners of the funds. But the reality is that none of these users have been able to provide reliable evidence to demonstrate the veracity of this information.
To prove ownership of an Ethereum address the user must provide a cryptographic signature valid for that address.
Likewise, the company indicated that the distribution of these funds to the miners will be carried out according to the hash rate that each miner contributed at the time of extracting the block. And later he emphasized that if a similar situation occurs in the future, he will not wait to distribute the funds from the mined block rewards; since the company's internal policies indicate that these must be distributed in their entirety among the miners immediately.
Of course, the reactions to these statements have not been long in coming. Several users totally disagree with the measure of waiting only 4 days, while others consider that the pool should return the funds to the same address from which the transaction was sent.
Likewise, among the responses to Ethermine's statements, Vlad Zamfir y Péter Szilágyi, Ethereum developers expressed their disagreement with the pool's decision. In this sense, Zamfir seems to be surprised by the measure of waiting only 4 days; while Szilágyi argued that the company should wait at least 1 or 2 months, if it took the seriousness of the case seriously.
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