An abnormally high remuneration for miners

The Sparkpool mining pool received a payment of more than 2000 ETH for the extraction of block # 7 238 290. This is 600 times higher than the standard net remuneration of 3 ETH. This is evidenced by data from the Blocks block browser .

So, the pool included in block 210 transactions and received 2103,1485 ETH. This incident is instantly overgrown with different versions.

Jimmy Chong, co-founder of the decentralized IOST application, suggested that one or more users might accidentally set a transaction fee at an extremely high level.

A whopping 2,100 #ETH (~ $ 300k) tip was just paid to the miners on the #Ethereum network. What a generous guest … or mistake. @coindeskevents @coindesk https://t.co/x5pZkE47tg pic.twitter.com/SjS6ZpmhvX

– Jimmy Zhong (@jimmyzhong_iost) February 19, 2019

Other observers do not exclude that someone could anonymously support the community of miners. Skeptics, however, argue that attackers could launder money in this way.

Recall that at the end of February hardfork Constantinople is to be held in the Ethereum network, which will reduce the miner's reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH per block.

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