Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees

Re:Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees by londons_explore on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:42AM (#19216412)

This is just some miner trolling everyone by paying a big fee to themself.

I don't see any way for them to benefit from it or to launder money as others have suggested.

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Re:Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees by hiq on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:58AM (#19216508)

There are several similar "erroneous" transactions mined by different miners: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/asapta/some...

So it's at least a bit more complicated than just one miner trolling everyone.

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Re:Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees by evrydayhustling on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:58AM (#19216510)

Any value to proving the relationship between their hashpower and that account?

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Re:Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees by londons_explore on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:18AM (#19217380)

They could just as easily prove that by signing a message with the private key of the mining payout account

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