A third “strange” transaction took place, this time with a transaction fee of 2,310 Ether (ETH), valued at more than $ 540,000 at the time of publication. Occurring less than 24 hours after the first two transactions of more than $ 5.2 million (10,668.73 Ether each) in fees were processed on the Ethereum blockchain, this new transaction raised the question of whether more than one person was involved
A SURPRISE
Unlike the previous two transactions, this one had a substantial volume of 3,221 Ether with a value higher than the rate. In addition to the controversy, this was not sent from the same address, but it brought an entirely new address to the equation, which had (MiningPoolHub: Old Address 7) next to its name.
This new address had many smaller transactions leaving for the same recipient at the same time, however, all other transactions were just some of Ether's with rates ranging from 0.0005 to 0.29 Ether. Normally 0.29 would be an expensive transaction, however, they are almost imperceptible compared to the rate that exceeds half a million.
LOOKS LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO Hijack
Primitive Ventures founding partner Dovey Wan participated in the conversation, suggesting that it is less likely to be a mistake and looks like a message:
“WOW came up with another abnormal ETH transaction with more than 2K rate, after the two previous occurrences, each with more than 10K rate. This to me is not a bug, but a message. One guess is that certain exchange / wallet / ETH services are being “hijacked” by hackers. ”
THE SUSPICION CONTINUES
The receiving address has more than 2,000 transactions, dated three years ago, with almost all transferring minimal amounts of Ether to the wallet. His only outbound transfers took place more than two years ago, the last of which took part in the sale of EOS tokens.
The address also received at least four other transactions in the past 12 months with transaction fees in thousands of dollars.
[ CREDITS; CRIPTOTHAPS ]