In Brief:
- Customers of Art Block are complaining after failing to receive pieces.
- OpenSea Records show same NFT minted to two different addresses
- Blocks affected from the reorganization are 13308900 and 1330891.
Customers of Art Blocks complain after failing to receive pieces that appeared to have been purchased from OpenSea NFT marketplace.
One vigilant user pointed out the error on its Discord that Skulptuur #445 looks to have been minted by 2 separate accounts, according to Opensea’s records. Another NFTs collector said they have spent over $1400 in gas fees costs linked with verification transactions.
In an hour, an Art Blocks representative confirmed the situation via Discord. The popular NFT platform experienced a block-reorg that means that transactions once established on the Ethereum blockchain were replaced by different blocks of transactions.
In effect, some users who paid ETH for NFTs from artist Piter Pasma’s Skulptuur collection never received their tokens. They were left puzzled, as NFTs which they minted failed to appear in their wallets
This kind of thing may have been just due to how blockchain works. It could have been a user participating with a miner to put the transactions in their favor.
“This is not something that Art Blocks has any control over, this reorg happened at the level of the state of the Ethereum Virtual Machine as a whole,” they said. The representative provided Etherscan links to the affected blocks –13308900 and 1330891. They also suggested that a recently upgraded version of the Art Blocks site should solve this issue in the future.
Art Block NFT projects are gaining a lot of attention from collectors. The famous British auction house, Christy, is also auctioning Art Blocks Curated NFTs. It is going to take the bids for auction in ETH.
Art Blocks watchers saw the episode as an example of miners on the Ethereum network who receive fees in exchange for verification transactions and earning profits.
EthereumDegen tweeted that the reorganization of transaction blocks allows greedy miners to “get their mints in and earn free money by flipping.”
“If you aren’t mining blocks your chance to get an Art Blocks mint are reduced and those miners are scalping us.”
