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I do not know if this person didnt know what they did and switch the sending amount with the transaction fee or what happened. But I think their boss will be giving them a talk tomorrow morning on why their customer didnt get the payment they were suposse to.
https://i.ibb.co/gzLYgdd/Clipboard01.jpg (https://ibb.co/86Lk8bb)
That is 2100 ethereum to the miners. As the comments say "They must be happy! ;D"
 ::)
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x1f73b43dc9c48cc131a931fac7095de9e5eba0c5184ec0c5c5f1f32efa2a6bab

That's indeed a nice tip for the miners :D
It's even worse than ordering stuff online for $5 and paying $10 for the delivery :D

Omg! this is really so dumb, it's such a huge waste of money because of the lack of attention when sending money. I'm sure his boss will fire him and maybe kill him because of that, but I think there is some ways to recover this lost money, by contacting support maybe, or doing another trick, but this thing is really so stupid and horrible. People should be more careful when sending money, especially when the amount of money is so huge like that, any mistake will cost you so much.

That's a lot of money to pay for a transaction. If I were their boss I'd fire him and the ones who trained that guy.

For someone how loses such amount in times when the bulls are coming, it must be one hell of a 10K BTC pizza sob story. Good for the miners though.

History repeats itself? :D

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/258478e8b7a3b78301661e78b4f93a792af878b545442498065ab272eaacf035

It's technically possible for whoever mined the block to return the fees though..

Meh, this thing happens regularly for Bitcoin. Maybe even at least once a year. These people don't practice safety!

Thats gotta hurt, Was it done on purpose or by accident or ignorance?
Could have been done by a disgruntled employee on their last day on
the job....then again why not just send the 2100 eth to your own address,
Bizzare

Nice round number though

Maybe it should have been the other way around, send 2100 with 0.1fees

This is what I think the sender did. Was mix up the sending fee field with the amount to send one.


I knew it is possible for bitcoin but wasnt aware it was possible for ethereum on their blockchain.
Is there a way to see which miner or pool received the block reward of this size?

In my other thread I posted about the etc chain sent the miners pool 104etc instead of the 4etc per block reward.

There's a great thread about that one, definitely worth a read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296217.0;all

I remember reading a few years back about a case like this. The whole thing unfolded on Reddit and I'm pretty sure the guy ended up communicating with the pool that mined the block they returned his coins. I can't find the thread now, though.

I’m quiet confused since the price of ETH is pumping for a week now not knowing that the trasaction fees are more expensive than what you have. I don’t know if this is true or not but this is really alarming and it can result to other dump for the price of ETH.

Really a terrible mistake
Especially if there is no way to recover money
The catastrophic error of some people lies in
Do not review process data more than once
And does not deal with the steps to be taken seriously.

2100  Ether thats a huge amount, that could have been vitalik that gave that tip to the miners....

if not it could be used for a massive anti ethereum propaganda campaign soon

This is something that could possibly be the reason for this high payment for a transaction fee.
They want to show ethereum is not a perfect system in their proof of being a smart contract in be able to send value to one another. ;)
But the wallet address is still sending transactions regardless of their error or lack of it being one. :-\

Yeah, this is an enormous amount of money for just one transaction. I think probably it was a mistake made by someone non-expert... but what a kind of mistake!!!

Actually, this is just the highest fee of a total of 4 transactions from the same wallet. Grand total: 3,150 ETH transaction fees for ~ 0.15 ETH.

https://cryptopotato.com/developers-mistake-someone-just-paid-450k-3150-eth-for-ethereum-transaction-fees/

$310,000 boy just for that transaction fee.

I wouldn't know what I can do to myself if I commit that myself. I hope that good will shall come and the amount will be sent back.

It was said earlier it happened on the bitcoin blockchain several years ago and the pool who received the botched amount sent as the the transaction fee resent it back to the sending address.
So you never know as this recent incident happened just today about 21 hours 21 minutes ago. :)

But was this really just a mistake? I mean, yeah, it maybe could happen once (if you have no clue what you are doing) but at 4 four transactions? That doesn't look like it was an error.

Wow, it looks like a huge amount to give a tip or a fee. Tomorrow he will look at life from another perspective. Or maybe someone made a big profit from somewhere and sent it to the miners as a gift.

The miners that mined that block can return the coins, however if they refuse to do so then there is nothing else to do since this was a mistake of the user, I do not know why this happened, but it is likely that the user made a mistake when he was using his wallet, but this is why it is important to make a small test before sending significant amounts of money to an address you do not control, if he instead made a test with 0.1ETH then the loss could be several times smaller and the damage to his holdings will be minimal but now he will depend on the kindness of others to recover his coins.

Yeah, fat finger everywhere and i am sure boss will be angry tomorrow about 310k$ payment :) Hope this was not mistake and it is just a experiment  by developers. Few months ago i also paid more than 10$ as a fee for single transaction.

Some miner won the lotto! Remember there are over 100 million ETH out there so this may be pocket change to some early adopter who wants to run some tests.

That's a huge amount some error may happen sometimes I experience it on metamask the gas price is set automatically at millions so you need to pay attention but if it is a business wallet and it is a software error somebody is getting fired or work without pay lol. Miners are lucky  ;D

Yes. Nobody would really believe it without the proof the etherchain shows the transaction was completed with these fees attached to it.
It is quite insane really how some people can be so careless when they are sending a transaction.
It will cost them alot with just a quick check before hitting the send button. :-[

Oh no... All that hard earned money. Just hope the owner is rich enough and can survive this sort of lose. Seriously, this is not cool at all... Is it even possible to get back refunds or at least part of the eth sent as transaction fee?

I wonder for what reason this error occurred. I do not understand how this could have happened by chance. For the first time I hear about such mistakes.

It has to be intentional, they did it 4 times! Maybe they are tipping the miners or being charitable. The only other explaintion to me would be some faulty UX that displays properly, but communicates with the blockchain in the wrong way.

This isnt a mistake, He's been doing on purpose. 0xc3e6f47ffa1b1e0bf926d5727e1adedac595d24cc4fa9b2f271d35566fdaf8d6 has payed 840 eth in fees 0x464e50e8ade15ad883f80fd173f6afd85efdf15413892625fe0146fbe5fecd92 has payed 420eth in fees. THey have been doing this for a while and dont have much left. There are couple of other accounts related too which have been doing similar things. sending 3$ worth ETH and putting fees as 61000$.

I can only say, wow. How did it happen. We know that etherum networks often experience congestion, because transactions overlap. Is this a mistake from the sender, or the sender intentionally did this, or is it wrong on the eth network?

I feel sorry for this man. I think that he has not quite understood everything can be a Beginner who does not understand the cryptocurrency, he earned a lot of money in the bounty and did not know how to use it and now decided to draw conclusions and there was this misunderstanding. ;D

A cute idea for money laundering. Miner runs modified software (doesn't transmit transaction to others, keeps it private) and money goes from one account to a "miner" - who "accidentally" makes huge profit.

I don't know how is possible to make $300K worth mistake.
Could be some other reason behind this? Whoever sent this with huge fee didn't send it first time to forget to check fees.
Ex girlfriend?  ;D

This is a system error why fees are opened infinitely

I wonder if there is a full story about it ;D
how did that happen? a tired worker didn`t notice the fee amount? or ir is some miner charity action? ???

Unbelievably, I think it is only possible that he deliberately did so, unable to confuse many of these numbers.

Actually in less than 5 hours a little less than 0.2 eth has been paid with $500k+ worth of eth.

madness.

https://i.gyazo.com/02c757308ffa706baa7f0991358fcaaf.png

reference:
https://twitter.com/MatiGreenspan/status/1097929198004588544 (https://twitter.com/MatiGreenspan/status/1097929198004588544)
https://bitcoinerx.com/altcoin/ethereum/5-ethereum-transactions-totaling-0-17-eth-rack-up-575k-in-fees-developer-error-or-something-else/ (https://bitcoinerx.com/altcoin/ethereum/5-ethereum-transactions-totaling-0-17-eth-rack-up-575k-in-fees-developer-error-or-something-else/)

I still don't understand why it might happen, Maybe this is an ETH error or some other reason. I have never seen such a strange thing since I joined this market and know ETH

Is this for real?
Perhaps the one making that transaction is drunk to make that awful mistakes. I believe he/she is regretting what has he/she done  right now. but nothing can be done to take back that fund.

2100 eth for the fee is very large and exceeds the number of transfers. but is it reversed or is it true that something really happened, and if it really happened I think it was very, very big for a fee.

When I got payment with higher amount, more than last year I am only getting lower payment not only from ICO investment but also almost at bounty campaign I am still getting little payment, hope one day later I got higher amount for reward at bounty campaign.

When you are at the beginning in this area everyone has made a similar mistake, but with very low money figures, making a mistake like that can cost not only the job but the whole career. care must be taken when transferring a sum of money similar to this. The mistake is not of the worker according to us, but of who gave him that job. You can not manage transactions that do not give you the certainty of being able to do them. ???

this is simply what happens when people decide to use applications that are not safe and are not reviewed. sometimes it is due to their own messing up with the code where they unknowingly introduce bugs trying to do strange stuff and as a result end up losing a lot of money.

since this has happened more than once, it is definitely a broken wallet/application that is sending these transactions like this because it has a bug.

i don't think a boss would let his assistant handle a wallet that has more than 2000 eth in it. might be a person who mishandled the transaction due to mistyping by himself. and i dont think he is a newbie considering the amount of eth he had.

Oh dear, this is an extremely expensive mistake. To be frank, I don’t really check the transaction fees after setting gwei, but I do check wallet address I am sending ETH which I think is important. After this incident, I will check on transaction fees as well.

I think that user interchanged the fee and sent amount value,which caused a lot for them. :o

Pity for that one,when people are in hurry or don't know what they were doing they will get chance of losing huge so people need to have wallet with default fee to avoid these issues.

   It`s not everything like it looks like. I`m reading some people blogs, they done their homework. This is not the first time,
same happened several times before with same address. It`s some miner probably doing something, there are few scenarios,
nobody is 100% sure what is happening.
   I don`t believe that someone paid so much for transaction. It`s very hard to happen to someone who have that much
Ethereums, how he can be so stupid.

;D ;D ;D I see only this explanation of this act.Make a mistake in this situation is very difficult,almost impossible.To do this you need to be or under the influence of drugs or be completely drunk.In this situation, to be honest, there are more questions than answers. Let's see if this user may appear on the forum and write what really happened.I'm honestly still in shock.

Honestly I didn't even know that it is possible to supply such fuel value to make the transaction ! It was a total mistake of the wallet owner !

Lol, they might be wanted to pay the miners because nowadays miners couldn't get rewards as they expect on this year.

Yeah I saw this yesterday, at first I thought it was just a joke until I saw the wallet. Is it that it was a foolish mistake or the person just has a bad luck? But isn't allowing such a transaction harsh?

well, that's a kind of such unworthy transaction lol.  He must be wanted to send the 310k worth of eth with 0.1 eth as the fee but they change it due to miss looking.

The amount is too high to be a mistake, it's not about adding one or two zeros by mistake. The miner theory is plausible, the question is why a miner would do that taking the risk of another miner taking the transaction and those fees.

Yeah right, since it's clearly been seen if ow much the value of ETH he used, there's something wrong or a wild mistake that has
been committed, I'll be more than happy to read if ever that person will show up and admit or explained what happen to that
particular mistake that he committed.

I saw this on the news yesterday... this may just be a developer bug on the ethereum network..  Why would anyone wanna temper with the recommended gas fee given by the wallet address?? It's just not right... there may be more to this story

Wow, what a great loss to this transaction. I think there is really nothing good here that happen. This is a very bad day I guess a newbie doing a experiment transaction that relatively failed due lack of knowledge and understanding about how transfer of coins or tokens work.

what the fuck? he really didn't see that big transaction fee? what a big loss for him, I think he was drunk that time maybe he just tried to set the fastest transaction. ;D

My be he is unknown person who is sending ETH ,in my point of view he was setting gas price that is default 21000 and new version of ETH is also reason the mistake.

This is crazy I think its a huge mistake and the person who send those transaction is in deep trouble now, if he just an employee. But what if the person who send those transaction is the big boss herself hes in vain now im sure.

he got one job and really mess it up. this guy really need a glass of coffee. he probably use myetherwallet new interface and got confused when he set gas fee.
ETH upgrade fork should include a change of fee limit on ETH, so unwantted accident like this not repeated again.

Dude probably meant to send 2100 eth and pay 0.1 as the transaction fee but mistook the places in between. This has happened multiple times in many coins before, people keep doing the same mistake, thankfully that money is not going to waste, the miners who take the fee's take that money so its still in circulation and not lost but we need to find a way to fix this.

For example, a blockchain that basically stops people from sending too much money as a fee would be a good option, think of ethereum and when you want to send money blockchain declines anything over 1 eth for transaction fee? That would be super cool but I am not a developer so I don't know how it could be done.

That would prevent stuff like these to happen and we would be at least ease in mind about our transactions and making mistakes like this.

Yes, I'm aware that it happened recently.

It's a lot of money and hoping that this kind of incident won't happen again.  :-\

To be honest, I thought it was a joke. However, looking at your screenshots and comments, I realized that it was not. It's terrible. It is interesting whether it is possible to sue this employee from the court through the court because the amount is too large.

The sender might have some defects that need to be corrected, which could be eye defect.
Come to think of it, he should have then allowed someone else to get it done for for him, because I am trying to imagine the condition he would be now.
If someone like me, who has nothing or not even rich, makes such a mistake, I will just quit.

it hurts by just looking on it. I don't know that thing was possible on ethereum blockchain. Why did he/she not double checked it. If you sending that kind of amount you should check it twice or more. Hoping that the miners sent back the transaction fee the the sender's address.

had seen the news in the media crew a few hours ago I thought aimed at the miners, it looks like someone was not an ordinary person by see all the eth wallet transactions of that person so many eth collected by him but it is likely that there was an error between the fee box and box inverted shipping

Thats crazy :) It shows us why we need to check 2 times before we approve any transaction. They must got hard pains after they realize what they have done.

Wallets should really be setting a transaction fee that is considerable to have its confirmation faster, I can imagine how the person's face after learning he sent so much money as transactions after sending few bucks to someone.

Don't you think its the ZERO or any other number on his keyboard that stuck when editing the transaction fee that causes this misfortune?

This is an honest mistake and I'm sure wherever he is now You would be explain himself I guess he got it mixed up or maybe he was high But I also heard of a case where The miner mining the block was actually asked to refund the money in other not to cause commotion or inflate gas fee, its an honest mistake tho and i feel really sad for him because he would probably lose his job

I heard that now the mining pool froze the money and wants to return it to the person who committed this transaction

Wow!
Why would somebody do that? and what has caused that?
Is that some bug?
If it is , then miners have been so happy about it!

Poor guy, it is unbelievable to pay so much money for a small transaction. I hope there will be a solution for a double spending problem and we would not face such awful things in the future. I cannot believe in this still.

That is a large amount of fee, I am sure he will definitely regret his actions. This is why checking is very important, especially when we set the transaction speed (gwei). Because if we mistakenly set gwei, it will cause a higher fee. I hope that the incident will not happen again in the future, because we cannot take our Ethereum anymore.

https://www.coindesk.com/sparkpool-to-freeze-mysterious-2100-ether-mining-payout-for-now

Very nice of them.

That is a huge amount of fee and the person who did the transaction must be really fucked up. This could be a developer mistake by not checking the gas fee. I have read in some comments that it's possible to be return by the miner of that block. Thats if the miner wants to take it back otherwise it must have been a huge amount of tip and what lucky miner.

The amount of 2100 ethereum had been traced to the pool it was sent to.
Spark pool stated they will send it back to the one who comes forward to claim it.
Which I doubt they will track this individual down so they would need to contact them.
If it isnt claimed in an allotted amount of time they will just distribute it among the miners who helped the day the block was mined.

I read about this in the news yesterday and it was really alarming. Although there is alot of speculation going round about it. According to the news, it maybe some kind of glitch the dev should fix or it may be a fraudulent activity. Which ever the case might be , a fix is needed

I believe that is just an accident, but still it is really a bad luck for someone who done it. I feel bad to that person, If that were me, perhaps i wouldn't able to sleep for a week, regretting what has happen.

Wow. What a silly mistake. I think he wanted to send that much money but instead put that number in the gas fees. I want to know if that guy is here and if we can know his situation now.

If thats happen to a company,for sure it is a sabotage from a fired employee or force resigned 😂

But that was a huge amount,why not just send it to random address so it might get straight to one of us wallet and he will receive our gratitude lol

That's what happens when you put too much gas price, someone had made same mistake with coinomi wallet last year, they later put measures to prevent that.

I think he is having a good time with his ethereum, he is helping the community to gain support by just doing that kind of thing which allot of us find not appropriate. I do really hope he just paid me rather pay a transaction fee that big.

This transact need to be investigated because it is highly abnormal. If it is from the sender then this is the mistake of the year. The miner of this transact will smile all day. I made mistake that cost me almost 1.2ether, that day i was angry with myself how much more of this.  :) :)

What the hell. Is that possible? What Ethereum wallet allows to do that? When you use Myetherwallet you can only set the gas limit, there is no chance to make such mistake.

Damn, that's such a big amount of eth. In my opinion, the sender was mistakenly put gas that worth 0.1 eth in amount of eth to send box and 2100 eth that supposed to be the real amount of eth to send in gas box. At least this case makes me to be more aware before sending my ether.

Oh that is very huge amount of money and I think that people will really sad because they did not big mistake in his/her in life.
We don't know what is the purposes of the sending the ethereum but for sure now they are are really sad and they did not know what he can do. But they will get back again his /her money because once the transaction fee set you don't have way to get back. So better soon always check the transaction fee you make.

how could that person pay a fee of 2100 etherum when he only sent 0.1? there must be something wrong with the ongoing transaction.

Miners have a great party whole doing on this transaction, but really did not understand how it was happened, any error with gas price setting might be, really paid heavy price for just a small 0.1 transfer of ether.  

This called as I remember correct mistake of fat fingers. When someone just clicked the wrong button. Interesting is this address of some ICO?

Inattention cost someone a lot of money, which is why you need to check several times before making such transactions!

I agree with you mate!

I think the eth network should be checking and investigating this kind of turf and must make a help by implementing a safe gas consumption.

310k$ is a huge amount the person should probably made a terrible mistake. Cant the miners refund this? Fot God sake people should watch stuff before clicking or you might end up like this.

Oh wow, its my first time to see it. its waste of money just for fee transaction, $310,000 for 0.1eth. Wow just WOW. Speechless -_-

Oh dear, this is such a costly mistake, I believe this guy should be feeling miserable to lose so much money for a mistake. Although it is USD 300,000 atm, but it is going to worth millions if Bull Run start and ETH go back to the previous ATH.

They don't need to wait until anyone claims those ETH, they can simply send them to the same address from which they were sent, they don't need to do anything else.

If that image is not edited then that must be the worst thing that happened to that person. It's the first time seeing this and it's rediculous that this happen without checking how much he pay for 0.1eth.

I doubt that miners will show leniency and return the coins. Yes, if this is a mistake, it has cost someone dearly. Be careful when sending transactions. Although, I think this does not threaten us.

I am wondering now how the sender feels this time.
This is not a small thing to be called a wrong one. this is a total mess for the owner.
If i am the boss i will not just fire this one, I will let him work for it.

I was also surprised when I saw this, but I think it was intentional
IF you tracked the wallet address, similar approach was done 3 times consecutively

The question is why ??

This is unbelievable, was the the person sleeping when he was making the transaction? I think there is something behibde the transaction.

If this is a mistake, I do not understand why he can see the transaction fee of 2100 ETH. Because when transferring ETH for gas and gas limit, it is necessary to adjust both parameters correctly so that the fee can be 2100 ETH

That's funny. And someone has left my life) Is a serious error and people not physically able to give the same amount. This is unfortunate. Just imagine what was going on in the soul of the sender after he saw his deal...I even myself felt bad after I realized what he did) Be careful.

I have heard that it was not a mistake because it is highly impossible to make such mistake. But it was a money laundering method.  ::) I do not understand it how they get their Ethers back.. from miners? :D

It was not deliberate and It was a very bad mistake. Have seen this news on twitter but I think a sincere miner should be able to return a good percentage of the fund even if he cant return all. Funny thing is that the newbie wont see such information cause they need it more though anyone can be a victim of such incident if not careful.

Can this be a mare inexperience or just a mistake , a not careful person. I think is funny to see such transaction. I'm even feeling sick myself seeing that.

There are 2 possible scenarios to this.

1. Maybe this is a newbie mistake but why would a newbie buy huge amount of ETH knowing that he/she is just a newbie.
2. There is something fishy around it. Maybe there is a meaning why this happened.

Either way, its an early Christmas gift for the miners.

There, then this block was canceled in order to return his money to the bad guy, because it would not be fair!

I guess the mistake came from adjusting the fees himself.
This shouldn't even be allowed to happen. There should be a certain fee limit one can adjust . I wish this was some error otherwise the ether has to be refunded to the poor owner.

These jokes are not comparable what they send is only 0.1 ETH while the transaction is so large how many times that?
Is this a mistake why this happened?

I think this is a purposeful act , I have never seen a really stupid person to be able to use a huge sum of money to make gas fees. And MEW never happened this situation before

Sparkpool has frozen the amount and said that if the sender claims to get back the amount, they will give back. So, that's not a problem anymore. Some people are saying that it is a reward to the miners.

Yeah I heard about it! Probably someone try to sent 310000$ with a 0,1eth transaction. I think he is very sad now:) But miners are funny.

Ouch that hurt! he was drunk doing that I guess, I wonder what is he doing now? is he still alive? ;D. Well lesson for him not carefully to set gas fees.

Maybe that person is not old here in cryptoworld. Because for me if you are old here you can know where di you put the the amount of coin you send the transaction fees. But maybe even he is old or have alot of knowledge but Im so sad to him because of that happen and we cannot know what is the purpose of sending the ethereum maybe it is for the business or project or personal needs.

how that thing is possible? i mean i not use all ETH wallet actually. But see something like that only happen in bitcoin wallet that we put fee manually. On ETH sometime it decided with ETH network itself.

Yes indeed, once it has been sent and the transaction is done, it will never be recover again.
But I was thinking that high transaction fee is possible, I never think of that. Because once you made a transaction the fee is
automatically program in the amount that you are going to withdraw, am right? But whatever, it is still a big mistakes
to give a Fee in the transactions.

I think this is not a mistake, it cannot happen that he sent 0.1 ETH but attached with the fee so high. Suppose this is someone's joke that can't happen, why this joke creator didn't send that 2100 ETH into their wallets

After exploring the transaction from that address, it can send many transactions in the same time. So I think they used automatic script for sending and maybe the script has a bug about fee.

wow that's so much and I think that's the problem of cryptocurrency one day i made a mistake on forkdelta and lost 1500 $ , why such transaction is confirmed

How you lost $1,500 in forkdelta?

Explaining on how the transaction happened can be reviewed if you will ever read all of the previous comments. Yes, this is a large amount just for a transaction and this didn't happened once but a couple of times too with bitcoin.

I can't understand how this is even possible, because normally I don't think the whole transaction feels will get used up in the transaction. Just like times when I have made transactions in the past and I set transaction fees to be slightly higher than what is needed, then as soon as the transfer goes through, the extra eth for the transaction remains in my wallet.
However the miners would be the benefactors

Many speculations on what might transpire. Meanwhile as I read few days ago that a cryptocurrency mining pool has frozen the fee and now in the custody of the huge ETH waiting for the sender to reach out on how to go about it.

I do not believe in it. I work for a year and can't earn more than $ 10,000. Maybe he drank a few bottles of wine before doing this. It will be a lesson for him if he is careless in the future.

in all the cases that i have heard so far, every single one of them was caused by the user running a customized script or wallet or something like that which wasn't tested well enough and it contained bugs.

I have never made or had this huge amount and i am trying to think of what the Pierson might be going through at the moment, making such serious mistake.
It might be too big for him to handle.
It is unfortunate that it is not going to a known address, else hr might have had a chance of retrieving.

the amount of loss was fantastic but I doubt whether it was indeed a loss or intentional thing because I saw there were 20 thousand transaction histories but hopefully this is purely because of an error and hopefully the 2000 ethereum returns

i wanna be the miner to just mine this one!
wel the MEW now is really in good picture. i like the way they change the website!
Though dont ever to always on the button or change it to see it.
The gas and the last one! make sure to see it as alway, this might be a big problem the LIMIT GAS!

It should not be possible for anyone to send 2100 ETH in mining fees. The blokchain should automatically refuse to mine that transactions, setting a max mining fee should be standart, but greed or lack of responsibility from the Ethereum team still let people lose tons of money.

As far as I know, mining pools are waiting for the person who is responsible for this transaction to appear, they are going to return this money to him, if he does not appear, the funds will be divided between the pool members.

Not really, there have been faster $14 worth of Ethereum transactions with normal fees. The extremely high fee didn't speed up the mining process or whatsoever ;)




Excuse me? How can you blame the network for this? It's the user that should be more responsible, especially when they work with such big amounts. Like, DOUBLE CHECK before clicking the send button? It's a client-side mistake, and nobody knows what kind of wallet this user have used. Blaming the Ethereum team and network makes no sense.

It is now the joke of the year,all shocked by this,like this was possible many wonder?maybe it's the admins of the project was,so to say to yourself, Cashing did? read the article it says about it,yet no one knows really,everyone will find out something like this!

It's not the problem of cryptocurrency! It's the problem of people's low IQ. Most wallets even give you a warning when the fee is too low or too high. Some wallets don't allow you to manually enter fee. You can only increase and decrease it by some set number like +100% over the average. To spend so much on fees you have to try hard and be an idiot.

This is correct, I posted a link to an article 3 days ago in this same thread about Sparkpool. I've been watching the sending address and I saw some activity, so they have probably already contacted the mining pool? https://etherscan.io/address/0x587ecf600d304f831201c30ea0845118dd57516e

But before the crazy transaction happened, there were another 2 weird transactions with 210 ETH and 420 ETH fee and another one of 420 ETH fee after the 2,100 ETH..

https://i.imgur.com/JPMNnZ4.png

Here they are:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5691ddae752652bd579da5b45e84d5b90ae35acce5cbd308a1574c31f722608f (Block 7,238,273 (https://etherscan.io/block/7238273) mined by Nanopool)
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xcb59748b9b7b9732f04b66dde0009a1e4856a50ed8ff68a0dedbaa5e57807d31 (Block 7,238,275 (https://etherscan.io/block/7238275) mined by Nanopool again)
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x464e50e8ade15ad883f80fd173f6afd85efdf15413892625fe0146fbe5fecd92 (Block 7,239,021 (https://etherscan.io/block/7239021) mined by Ethermine)

Geez, And another one with 840 ETH fee:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc3e6f47ffa1b1e0bf926d5727e1adedac595d24cc4fa9b2f271d35566fdaf8d6 (Block 7,239,023 (https://etherscan.io/block/7239023) mined again by Nanopool, lol)


What a bunch of lucky birds.. But WTF went wrong? Someone got drunk, crazy or hacked? :)

This transaction made a lot of noise on the network. One of the theories is that this is washing the “dirty” Ether through the mining pools, but it seems too fantastic to me, it’s impossible to agree with all the pools.
This is not the first such transaction with a high commission in the network of Ethereum.

I cannot believe that such things are still happening. I think this person will remember this for the whole life. Always check the contract address, the transaction amount and the gas fee and you won't make such mistakes. It is very sad, because it is a matter of 30 seconds to check everything.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/sparkpool-splits-2100-ether-mining-fee-with-accidental-sender

This is one of the biggest mistakes I have encountered in the cryptocurrency space.
This only goes to show that cryptocurrencies and cryptography transactions are still a mile off mass adoption because the average consumer is not going to be technically inclined so this kind of mistakes will continue to happen over and over again it's best to just avoid it by being careful.
ETH gas fees can be a bit tricky to set sometimes.

What the heck did they do?
That was a huge money I am sure who ever made that transaction is so depress right now,
I mean look at how much money he/she have wasted ,
2100 ETH just to send 0.1 ETH.

There is a transaction receipt before sending the eth right? Why didn't he saw that before he sent the money? Sometimes it's the users' problem. And also, why are you putting your bag of eth in one wallet. It should be diversed.

Holy crap, is this true? How does it happened? I cannot imagined that the fees for miners is almost 1000x bigger than the amount of the transaction being sent? I cannot figure out, what he has done or what, but i cannot believe it is happening.

This is true dude just check the txhash and you will see its transaction this anonymous person is so stupid to spend too much money for the gas fee in this transaction hmmmmm. I feel something fishy in this event well whatever this is not my money I imagine the face of this person.

No need to diverse our funds if our wallet is secured,all we need to do is little bit extra care while making transaction by double check the entered values.

There seems to be a big mistake but how such a mistake can be made. As much money as I've never seen in my life is just a transfer fee. I wonder what happened to him later.

This is obviously a mistake and a very expensive one in fact. And the fact that mistakes like this is very possible is one of the major problems that is keeping cryptocurrencies from going mainstream.
From the looks if it he or she adjusted the eth of the transaction fee to 2100 when he may have just wanted to adjust the gas fee.
Mistakes like this happen in crypto

biggest mistake ever.we need to recheck everything while make transaction even that ethereum, bitcoin or other coins.one little mistake will has big impact to our balance.

Wow! this is indeed a food for thought for those who enter into the crypto industry without being educated about it. This might have been caused by lack of knowledge on handling crypto transactions. This is indeed very sad

These a human error and basically when we have been putting the decimal and the fees will be automatically generated by the system and that's it. We must try to do double check for that. There was a lot of these cases in the past.

They are splitting the transaction fee 50/50 with the sender and the miners on the pool.
As shasan posted earlier with this link to the article source.
https://www.coindesk.com/sparkpool-splits-2100-ether-mining-fee-with-accidental-sender

It was an accident done by a firm in south korea according to the article above first posted by shasan as I found about the follow up to the story late last night and just remembered to post an update to the thread.
Of course the employee who did the error was fired.

 :-\ Can this swap miners? Look, I don’t think that someone can get mad so many times in a row. I think this is not a mistake but a deliberate act that would raise the price of Eth.

That is why we need to be more cautious and it is nothing wrong with the blockchain transaction,if it might happen with the fiat transactions as well by entering wrong amount or wrong account person they we will lose our money.

If i would not see it i would not believe it. I wonder if they realised the mistake they made. This is the prove that certain thing should not be done in hurry.

Who could have made such a heavy blunder. Such mistakes are the more reason folks so should not only double check but triple check before giving any command when financial transactions are involved

LOL, how did you find the transaction ? This is very hilarious.  ;D
I guess they was wrong to set the gas fee, it was 100,000,000 gwei, no wonder it was 2,100 ETH fee.
If you see the history of their transaction, there are more 2 transactions before, using 210 and 420 ETH for fee.

Yeah right. I think Miners are rejoicing for this amount to process. I dont know if this is a trip but this guy is crazy to send an amount of 0.1eth alone having a fee greater than what he send. In every platform there is a suggestion for gas fee right? Havent this guy paying attention to it?

This was a dumb move by the sender I wonder which wallet he was using to send it gas is always automatic in some wallets.