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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Ouch, today someone made a transaction with over $500k fee.
by
serveria.com
on 13/09/2023, 20:01:15 UTC
The bitcoin fees market is getting out of control. Someone must've been really in a hurry as they paid BTC19.82 (~$511,000) fee just to send $2k worth.
Jokes aside, probably a very painful mistake. I wonder how's it going to unfold and whether the miner will return it to the unlucky sender.

Source:
Explorers: https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1700920065934213256
Blockstream: https://blockstream.info/tx/d5392d474b4c436e1c9d1f4ff4be5f5f9bb0eb2e26b61d2781751474b7e870fd?expand
Blockchain.com: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/d5392d474b4c436e1c9d1f4ff4be5f5f9bb0eb2e26b61d2781751474b7e870fd

Indeed, ouch, I almost feel physical pain when I read how someone fat-fingered such a huge amount to the miners. It would be fair for the pool to return the sum if requested by the sender and it would be fair for the sender to send some amount as a gift back to the pool. Something like $10k would be a great tip I guess.  Cool