Bitfinex paid $23.5 million in fees to transfer 100,000 USDT; miner returned the funds.
The Bitfinex-owned decentralized exchange (DEX) DeversiFi reported a transaction of 100,000 USDT on the Ethereum network with a fee of $23.5 million.
At 11:10 UTC on the 27th September a deposit transaction was made using a hardware wallet from the main DeversiFi user interface with an erroneously high gas fee.https://t.co/OpSHkkFiBo
— DeversiFi 🥷 (@deversifi) September 27, 2021
According to the statement, the error occurred during a transaction from a hardware wallet. The developers are currently investigating the causes of the incident.
«Client funds on DeversiFi are not at risk, and this is an internal problem for DeversiFi to resolve. It does not affect the operation», — said representatives of the DEX.
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По данным The Block, операцию провели с применением EIP-1559, которое предполагает сжигание части комиссий и способствует снижению волатильности цены газа. Предложение также позволяет пользователям платить майнерам «чаевые».
Транзакцию добавил неизвестный майнер, входящий в десятку крупнейших по числу добытых блоков за последние семь дней.
Из общей суммы в качестве базовой комиссии было сожжено около $25, а оставшаяся часть стала вознаграждением для майнера.
For those that are making this mistake — not all fees on Ethereum are burnt. Only 0.0001% of the $24M fee was burnt so about $25
— Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) September 27, 2021
“What would actually be interesting is who is the miner that mined the block,” wrote analyst Larry Cermak.
The Bitfinex chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino said that the miner fully refunded the funds. According to him, Binance helped establish contact with him.
Kudos to the miner for being proactive and fair ♥️ And thanks to @binance for helping in establishing the contact.
Funds have been sent back to the source address. https://t.co/arvFhVdQbG— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) September 28, 2021
According to Etherscan, the miner carried out three transactions to the address linked to Bitfinex: 1 ETH, 7385 ETH and 240 ETH.
One Twitter user noted that this is the “perfect way to launder money.” But not everyone agreed.
Setting $23,000,000 on fire is not “money laundering”
— ₿itpapa (@BTCnADA) September 27, 2021
In 2019 Ethfinex announced a relaunch under the new name DeversiFi with a revised governance structure. In particular, the platform ceased using Bitfinex’s operating resources.
In February 2021, Bitfinex and Tether reached an agreement with the New York State Attorney General over the company’s financial operations tied to the loss of $850 million.
In September Bitfinex launched the Bitfinex Securities platform for trading tokenised shares and bonds, registered in Kazakhstan.
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