In Bitcoin it would be paid to the miner of the individual block where the transaction appears; I assume the same is true for Ethereum. (The miner, as part of t

In Bitcoin it would be paid to the miner of the individual block where the transaction appears; I assume the same is true for Ethereum. (The miner, as part of the mining process, specifies an address where the network mining reward as well as the fees in the block are deemed to be sent.) Edit: yes, Ethereum uses the same concept here and there is a field in the block header for the miner's address, which is how the miner gets paid for mining. Edit 2: In this case a parsed version of the Ethereum block in question, linked to from the article, is at https://etherscan.io/block/10237208 https://etherscan.io/block/10237208 and shows that the miner was "Spark Pool" (a mining consortium based in China, https://www.sparkpool.com/en/ https://www.sparkpool.com/en/). Mining pools aren't required to identify themselves, but identifying themselves may create goodwill, for example by slightly assuaging fears that one entity secretly controls mining on an entire chain, and might help pools to market themselves to prospective members or investors.