Someone made a $2.6 million mistake on Ethereum

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Someone made a $2.6 million mistake on Ethereum In the process of sending $130 over the Ethereum blockchain, someone accidentally paid $2.6 million in fees. Whoops.

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Regarding the first transaction, SparkPool announced they’re investigating it and that they’ve seen similar incidents before. “There will be a solution in the end.” Bitfly said that their Ethermine pool mined the second transaction with this enormous fee, saying that this is likely an accident. They’re calling the sender to contact them right away.

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@Cy13erBob Thanks for sharing this. I’m thankful to hear the mining pool Bitfly plans to make an adjustment for this fee error…meets my need for responsibility.

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@Cy13erBob, @BitcoinAlchemist - Worst day ever… Thankfully it was in the form of fees and not a wrong address. Nice to know a problem like that can be reversed.

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Yikes! As adoption grows there’ll probably be lots of funny mistake stories like this.

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Interesting speculations in this article: https://cointelegraph.com/news/third-ether-transaction-with-huge-fee-suggests-a-new-player-has-joined-the-party

“NOT a bug, a MESSAGE”

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woe, certainly look strange. Could it be a newbie repeating crazy mistakes? :nerd_face:

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