Topic: Huge transaction fee sent by mistake have been return to owner - page 2. (Read 333 times)
So, this was an attack. Thats nice that the money have been returned
It's glad to see Ethereum miners still helping out correct individual transactions. Such news are much common with Ethereum. Haven't seen such things happen on other larger blockchain. Maybe the nature of the Ethereum network makes it easier but yet it's the community first vibe among the Ethereum miners for such things happening.
Etherchain.org the pool that mined a high transaction fee block has also made an announcement.
"As the sender of the transaction https://etherchain.org/tx/c215b9356db58ce05412439f49a842f8a3abe6c1792ff8f2c3ee425c3501023c has not contacted us after 4 days we have made the final decision to distribute the tx fee to the miners of our pool. Given the amount involved we believe 4 days is sufficient time for the sender to get in touch with us."
"As the sender of the transaction https://etherchain.org/tx/c215b9356db58ce05412439f49a842f8a3abe6c1792ff8f2c3ee425c3501023c has not contacted us after 4 days we have made the final decision to distribute the tx fee to the miners of our pool. Given the amount involved we believe 4 days is sufficient time for the sender to get in touch with us."
Literally the miners are not liable to return back the money because they just what fee is used but when they know it is an error they returned it but we can't expect this to happen when the exact scenario repeats no matter the error amount if big or small.
What you guys think about this move? As we know it, transaction is irreversible but mistake like this have consequence to every users. What if the mining pool decides to keep it as the error not on their part? If other mining pool were not like these guys of f2pool then some people will loss asset due to human error. Do they only solve big transaction fee? How about those small to medium fees with the same scenario? This show that blockchain transaction is risky too especially if those transactions are been compromised by thieves and hackers.
On 2020-06-11 23:12, F2Pool mined an abnormal 3,221.6454 ETH transaction on the Ethereum network which also had a 2,310 ETH transaction fee. The TXID was 0xfd10c9a4507c4ebf1db9f71e05ba8ea09f3603c9012c24195d731a1fadfa14d9.
Later, on 2020-06-12 00:33, the sender contacted the F2Pool team and explained that they experienced a malicious attack on their node wallet, and 5,531.6454 ETH (worth $1.23 million USD) was transferred out. The sender earnestly requested F2Pool to return the transaction fee part of the transaction to retrieve part of their losses.
F2Pool operates both a PPS pool (address mining) and a PPS+ pool (account mining) for Ethereum. This transaction was mined by the PPS pool (shown by the Hex code ending with b1bc in the block data).
Out of our humanitarian spirit, F2Pool has decided to return the transaction fee component of the transaction. It’s not feasible to return the fee back to the original sender address as the address is also now controlled by the hacker. Therefore, we agreed to send the fee to a new address provided by the original address owner after full verification of the address and owner.
Later, on 2020-06-12 00:33, the sender contacted the F2Pool team and explained that they experienced a malicious attack on their node wallet, and 5,531.6454 ETH (worth $1.23 million USD) was transferred out. The sender earnestly requested F2Pool to return the transaction fee part of the transaction to retrieve part of their losses.
F2Pool operates both a PPS pool (address mining) and a PPS+ pool (account mining) for Ethereum. This transaction was mined by the PPS pool (shown by the Hex code ending with b1bc in the block data).
Out of our humanitarian spirit, F2Pool has decided to return the transaction fee component of the transaction. It’s not feasible to return the fee back to the original sender address as the address is also now controlled by the hacker. Therefore, we agreed to send the fee to a new address provided by the original address owner after full verification of the address and owner.
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