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How would this work? The fees go to the miners or are burned, so how do the laundered funds make their way back?
by throwaway1777 5y ago
How would this work? The fees go to the miners or are burned, so how do the laundered funds make their way back?
- tux3 5y agoPerhaps instead of sending your transaction publicly in the Mempool, you give it to your miner friend to include in their next block.
- sliken 5y agoIs the mempool logged? Is it possible to tell if it was a mistake or if they skipped the mempool?
- gruez 5y ago>Is the mempool logged? Yes. For instance on etherscan there's a "Confirmed within x secs" indicator, which is "Estimated duration between time First Seen and included in block".
- pcthrowaway 5y agoEven if it is logged, there are ways this behaviour could be masked. Say a colluding miner mines blocks including this unbroadcast transaction until they finally hit the block target with this transaction included. Bitfinex then broadcasts the transaction to mempool. After some plausible delay (but a short enough one that no one else gets a chance to mine it), the colluding miner publishes a valid block including the transaction. No one can confirm that the miner didn't receive the transaction from mempool like everyone else, and then 'get lucky' shortly after. I'm not saying this is what happened, I think user error is more likely. But it can neither be ruled out nor easily proven.
- Thorrez 5y agoThere would be suspicion that the block doesn't have any recent transactions in it though.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 5y agoThe basefee is burned, the priority fee is given to the miner.