In the last days there were two Ethereum transactions [3] that paid about $2.6m in transaction fees each, which even for Ethereum is a bit on the high side [1]. After the first transaction there were two major theories: fat fingers, and money laundering [2]. Now a third one has been added [4]. So what was it?

  1. https://decrypt.co/31956/an-ethereum-user-lost-5-2-million-in-two-massive-mistakes
  2. https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1270948475883134978
  3. https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc215b9356db58ce05412439f49a842f8a3abe6c1792ff8f2c3ee425c3501023c
  4. https://twitter.com/gakonst/status/1270955885502836736
  5. https://twitter.com/etherchain_org/status/1270927030817873920

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