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

[tranthiky]

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.

[BitcoinHodler]

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.

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.

[Ini35]

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.

[altscaner]

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

[jpoker272727]

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!

[cryptjh]

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.

[travwill]

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.

[s0lidus]

Yeah but you know what? That was THE FASTEST MOFO $14 Transaction EVER!!!!

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

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.

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.

[Yalovtsev]

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!

[pixie85]

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

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.

[s0lidus]

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.

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..



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

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


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

[cryptolord2077]

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.

[der_troll]

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.

[shasan]

Sparkpool Splits the 2100 ETH with Accidental Sender

Remember the news when someone got rekt after sending 2100 ETH in mining fee?

Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool has verified the accidental sender of and agreed to split the amount.

In a message embedded in a transaction, the sender thanked Sparkpool for their integrity and agreed with the amount split.

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

[adekogbe]

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.

[xvids]

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.

[spadormie]

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.

[pinoy.bolanon]

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

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.

[dark08]

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

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.

[zhekinsp]

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.

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.