Somebody paid $310,000 in transaction fee to send 0.1eth

[sorrros]

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?

[royalfestus]

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.

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.

[gantez]

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.

[LogitechMouse]

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.

[vova.andreyan.94]

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

[Ucy]

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.

[bassbity]

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?

[RockDJ]

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.

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

[Pffrt]

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.

[Babayan]

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.

[DonFacundo]

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

[Question123]

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.

[perla]

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.

[joromz1226]

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.

That is 2100 ethereum to the miners. As the comments say "They must be happy! "
 
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x1f73b43dc9c48cc131a931fac7095de9e5eba0c5184ec0c5c5f1f32efa2a6bab

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.

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.

[bitcoinmar]

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 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

[johnleo]

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.

[lotfiuser]

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

[passwordnow]

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.

[adekogbe]

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

[Akoldi_ibk]

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.