Re: [8500 GH/s] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + UserDiff; ASIC tested
I noticed every once in a while (like the last block) there will be almost 10BTC worth of transfer fees! I think it's awesome but does anyone know why that happens? a typo when someone did a transfer? or are people just being very nice to miners 
Hey, I noticed this a few times, and wondered myself. So I went on blockchain.info and looked at some of the transactions. You can see some Tx look like they have been run through a poor mixing job like this:
http://i43.tinypic.com/dgqhxw.jpg
So here we see Wallet 15r1c move 590 BTC to a couple other wallets, incurring 1.014 BTC Tx fee, which then manage to get the coin to Wallet 1KNCQ who gives it back to 15r1c all in the same second, which means they all get rolled up in the same block, incurring a total of 1.39454 BTC worth of Tx Fees. And so on and so forth.... This is but an example of why some blocks have HUGE Tx Fees.
You go around looking at some of these wallets, and you can see some pretty amazing amounts of coin doing neat tricks!
There's lot's of Tx mixers out there, but these blokes prolly used a horse like this one
http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/horsears_zpsc0a8b98c.gif
