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An Ethereum testnet account is sending tons of ether to itself
- saurik 9y agoOk?
- Shank 9y agoNone of the last 50 transactions were from 0xff2B5d4114190bB6447Dbae098096Fd274029535 and to 0xff2B5d4114190bB6447Dbae098096Fd274029535. So, how? And what's the significance of this? I'm genuinely puzzled.
- fareenough 9y agoI think the significance is the from accounts being different and the number of ether the account has. There's some hack like using the same mnemonic or something that's allowing them to do this.
- nimchimpsky 9y agoA hack that allows sending ether you don't have? Is it reproducible on mainnet? Asking for a friend.
- TheRealPomax 9y agoThis is just a page with transactions. Where is the "news" part that makes this interesting to the wider audience?
- heptathorp 9y agoIt all came from the MetaMask faucet https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x81b7e08f65bdf5648606c89998a9cc8164397647 https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x81b7e08f65bdf5648606c... through numerous intermediary addresses (maybe the faucet limits the amount of ETH it will send to the same address, I'm not sure). Possibly someone trying to attack the testnet. Or someone is bored and wants to see how much testnet ether they can accumulate.
- MadeByGus 8y agoI had the same issue. I'm using Ganache UI default mnemonic. I suppose anyone with the same mnemonic can access the default addresses.