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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Ouch, today someone made a transaction with over $500k fee.
by
philipma1957
on 12/09/2023, 03:02:10 UTC
...  transaction with such enormous fee could be mined by other pool but they might have no option other than to lose money or mine it be themselves.

I already discard that theory, the TX was publicly broadcasted according to mempool.space data. The TX was match with the expected block.

According to blockchain

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Broadcasted on 10 Sep 2023 5:02:56

And the block was mined:

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Mined on September 10, 2023 5:10:01

Almost 7 minutes on mempool, that actually can be mined by anyone with some decent hash rate or some luck.

So if you want to launder some money you shouldn't use that way.

It is a moron mistake. Maybe they will refund it.