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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: 291.2409 BTC for a 0.0001 BTC transaction .
by
shorena
on 26/04/2016, 20:18:50 UTC
Ooh a really fat fee! Whoever managed to was the miner who mined that, kindly return the 250 btc to the address indicated in my profile. The rest you may keep for your honesty lel. Grin

Things like this do happen in the bitcoin ecosystem every now and then. Some are lucky to have theirs returned and others aren't.

#1 human error (unlikely)
#2 some script messed up
#3 just a miner having fun fusing inputs

1 is still possible. Drunk dude sent it? Who knows?
2 is somewhat probable, considering that most automated payments are run via scripts.
3 is, uhmm. Who would do that, really?

#3 is fine as long as you dont broadcast the TX to anyone else.

Just to be clear here, this is very risky even if you just send the TX to a single miner.