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 <p class="is-style-lead">Gas <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="prices" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/prices.html">prices</a> on Ethereum’s mainnet temporarily skyrocketed on Sept. 21 following a series of “inefficient <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a>s” carried out by an address labeled Binance 14 on block explorer Etherscan. </p> 
 <p>The wallet made over 146,000 transactions within a 24-hour timeframe and overpaid for Ethereum transactions, spending as much as 300 gwei on regular transactions. The average gas fee at the time was around 10 gwei meaning that Binance spent $840,000 on gas fees in less than a day. </p> 
 <p>The crypto exchange ended up paying 530 Ether (ETH), according to a Dune dashboard, on what Scopescan described as consolidation from “long-inactive deposit addresses” by the Binance 14 Ethereum wallet.</p> 
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Due to #Binance consolidating funds from long-inactive deposit addresses, the #Ethereum network is experiencing congestion, causing Gas fees to surge to 300 gwei.<br><br>Address:https://t.co/sdDEs8Okxb pic.twitter.com/9rq9SVww07</p>— Scopescan ( . ) (@0xScopescan) September 21, 2023 
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 <p>Martin Köppelmann, co-founder of decentralized protocol Gnosis, seconded the consolidation explanation. Additionally, Köppelmann threw color on some technical reasons why Binance <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a>s resulted in exorbitant gas fees.</p> 
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  <p>Gas <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="prices" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/prices.html">prices</a> spiking because of a ton of regular ETH transfers related to Binance. They are using a really inefficient script to consolidate funds and are massively overpaying <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a> costs.</p> <cite>Martin Köppelmann, Gnosis co-founder, on X</cite> 
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 <p>Köppelmann initially surmised that there might be something suspicious about the Binance 14 movements. However, the defi founder noted that big companies like crypto exchanges were prone to inefficiencies and bad engineering.</p> 
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 <p>A similar incident occurred in December 2022, as Coinbase director Conor Grogan pointed out at the time. Gas fees lept over 100 gwei after Binance consolidated $32 million in Tether’s stablecoin USDT from 135,000 addresses.</p> 
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Binance consolidated around 135K USDT ETH addresses in a few hours. Was such a massive consolidation that total unique wallets holding USDT fell about 3%.<br><br>Usually Binance does sweeps when gas is low. Here, gas spiked to 100+ gwei. My guess is this is ahead of its PoR audits. pic.twitter.com/qFnJDSJnIx</p>— Conor (@jconorgrogan) December 9, 2022 
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 <p>In other Binance news, the crypto exchange remains embroiled in legal disputes with U.S. regulators over claims of law violations. Several employees including Brian Shroder, chief executive officer of Binance.US, resigned amid probes from the Securities and Exchange Commission.</p> 
 <p>Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao disputed claims that he received a $250 million loan from BAM Management, the entity behind Binance’s American crypto exchange.</p> 
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Binance on-chain transactions spike Ethereum gas prices

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