【Hacker’s heist goes wrong? 28 mysterious Bitcoin transactions each deducting precisely 17% in fees】
A bizarre case of an “automated theft gone wrong” has just unfolded on the Bitcoin blockchain.
According to on-chain monitoring by Mempool.space developer mononaut (@mononautical), 28 highly suspicious transactions were suddenly included in the same Bitcoin block:
🔹 Same source address: All 28 transactions spent funds from the same wallet address.
🔹 Uncannily precise: The miner fee for every transaction was exactly 17%!
🔹 Where the funds went: A total of 4.337 BTC was transferred out of the address, with as much as 0.7373 BTC (a full 17%) handed directly to miners as fees.
💡 A closer look:
1. A shoddily made sweeping bot: mononaut speculates that this was most likely an automated theft targeting a compromised wallet. A hacker or on-chain “sweeper” script detected a wallet with a leaked private key and triggered a batch withdrawal.
2. An absurd hard-coded fee rate: Normal on-chain transactions are charged by virtual bytes (sat/vB), but this hacker’s script clearly had a logic flaw: it crudely hard-coded 17% of the transfer amount as the fee, frantically pushing the transactions through in the same block.
3. Miners come out on top: The victim lost 4.337 BTC, while the thief’s sloppy code needlessly “paid tribute” to miners in the form of a massive 0.73 BTC (worth tens of thousands of dollars) in fees.
In the highly sophisticated world of blockchain networks, even hackers can get a costly lesson from on-chain rules and miners when their scripts are badly written.
#Bitcoin #区块链 #加密安全 #OnChainData
A bizarre case of an “automated theft gone wrong” has just unfolded on the Bitcoin blockchain.
According to on-chain monitoring by Mempool.space developer mononaut (@mononautical), 28 highly suspicious transactions were suddenly included in the same Bitcoin block:
🔹 Same source address: All 28 transactions spent funds from the same wallet address.
🔹 Uncannily precise: The miner fee for every transaction was exactly 17%!
🔹 Where the funds went: A total of 4.337 BTC was transferred out of the address, with as much as 0.7373 BTC (a full 17%) handed directly to miners as fees.
💡 A closer look:
1. A shoddily made sweeping bot: mononaut speculates that this was most likely an automated theft targeting a compromised wallet. A hacker or on-chain “sweeper” script detected a wallet with a leaked private key and triggered a batch withdrawal.
2. An absurd hard-coded fee rate: Normal on-chain transactions are charged by virtual bytes (sat/vB), but this hacker’s script clearly had a logic flaw: it crudely hard-coded 17% of the transfer amount as the fee, frantically pushing the transactions through in the same block.
3. Miners come out on top: The victim lost 4.337 BTC, while the thief’s sloppy code needlessly “paid tribute” to miners in the form of a massive 0.73 BTC (worth tens of thousands of dollars) in fees.
In the highly sophisticated world of blockchain networks, even hackers can get a costly lesson from on-chain rules and miners when their scripts are badly written.
#Bitcoin #区块链 #加密安全 #OnChainData
