If this was for an "Unknown" miner, I'ld include (a crappy form of) "mixing" as a possibility.
This is because the funds flow from a UTXO into the miner's fee (goes to the Coinbase transaction for the block). So a miner wanting to do mixing can include a transaction like this in a block they solve, knowing they get the fee.
But in this instance, that isn't likely the reason, as it was broadcast publicly, and included in the mempool seen by others, as seen in one of the replies to this Tweet:
I'm not sure why, but someone just paid 3.45BTC ($61,150.15 USD) at a fee rate of 337,513sat/vByte to get their transaction into an empty mempool. https://mempool.space/tx/04456585d3171624a2b1564e029e823ad076c6e9eccfe50bc6eae8e77c1b5d60 Wow.
reply
It was probably mined by the dude who sent the transaction so he could make his income statement look better to investors.
reply
reply