Lost and found contents: a pair of sunglasses, someone’s water bottle, oh, and about $279,000 worth of ETH.
There are mistakes – like Tim Cook “Tim Apple” – and then there are mistakes – like spending 2,100 Ether (ETH) in transaction fees. That’s what happened on February 19, when pool Sparkpool a mysterious payout of 2,100 ETH just for having mined one block on the . After a month of speculation surrounding why the unusually high payout was sent, Sparkpool has a tweet showing the original sender asking that the 2,100 ETH be split between the two.
At the time of the transaction, the cryptosphere was awash with rumors and guesses as the community tried to figure out why the 2,100 ETH was sent. Some, like Jimmy Zhong, cofounder and CEO of the decentralized app platform , gave it a positive spin, the fee to either be a generous tip or just a mistake. Others on , however, whether or not the user was trying to “wash” stolen ETH through the pool.
If random guesses aren’t really your thing, Taylor Dawson, an open source developer at analytics site , took to Medium to that the 2,100 ETH transaction fee was the result of “very very bad luck.” Dawson writes that, while money laundering had been considered, the large fee was most likely sent by a “bot gone haywire,” adding that “[t]he developer must have confused gas price with the transaction value, walked away and then didn’t realise the mistake until it was to [sic] late.”
As of today, Sparkpool has an email with CoinDesk showing the pool had been anonymously contacted on February 25 by an unnamed South Korean firm claiming to be the sender of the 2,100 ETH. To verify the anonymous emailer was the sender of the fee, Sparkpool asked that the user send .002517 ETH and .666 ETH from their 0x587 address.
Finally, after the .002517 ETH, the user the .666 ETH with a note that read “Thank you Sparkpool and your miners for helping us to recover our loss, we are willing to share half of 2,100 ETH with the miners to thanks for miners’ integrity.” Eventually, Sparkpool agreed to the terms, back 1,050 ETH (about $140,000) and thanking the original sender for their generosity.
Nicholas Ruggieri studied English with an emphasis in creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno. When he’s not quoting Vines at anyone who’s willing to listen, you’ll find him listening to too many podcasts, reading too many books, and crocheting too many sweaters for his , RT and Peterman.
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Published at Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:10:44 +0000
