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Multiple transactions recently incurred millions in transaction fees on the Etheruem network, which creator Vitalik Buterin thinks could have been blackmail.
“So the million-dollar txfees *may* actually be blackmail,” Buterin said in a June 12 tweet.
What happened?
Proposing his theory on the situation, Buterin explained:
“Hackers captured partial access to exchange key; they can’t withdraw but can send no-effect txs with any gasprice. So they threaten to ‘burn’ all funds via txfees unless compensated.”
Multiple transactions have incurred exorbitantly-high network fees
Over the last few days, someone sent approximately $130 worth of Ethereum (ETH), as of press time pricing, paying $2.6 million in transaction costs. Another transfer totalling $86,000 in ETH followed shortly after, incurring the exact same fee.
In a second tweet, Buterin mentioned an alternative possible explanation. “Similar situations could happen in ‘scorched earth’ games, including scorched-earth vaults aka ‘Moeser-Eyal-Sirer’ vaults,” he said, tagging AVA Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer and Technion assistant professor Ittay Eyal.
Buterin also mentioned “scenarios where hackers can slash but not steal staked funds.”
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