Vitalik Buterin Feedback on Unusual Transaction Charges

A number of transactions not too long ago incurred thousands and thousands in transaction charges on the Etheruem community, which creator Vitalik Buterin thinks might have been blackmail. 

“So the million-dollar txfees *could* truly be blackmail,” Buterin mentioned in a June 12 tweet.

What occurred?

Proposing his concept on the scenario, Buterin defined:

“Hackers captured partial entry to trade key; they cannot withdraw however can ship no-effect txs with any gasprice. In order that they threaten to ‘burn’ all funds through txfees except compensated.”

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