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Record $3M Transaction Fee Mistake

A user paid 83.65 BTC in fees to move 55.77 BTC — the largest dollar fee ever.

Block
#818,087
Importance
82/100

A newly created wallet sent a transaction with an 83.65 BTC fee — over $3 million and more than 120,000 times the normal rate. AntPool mined block 818,087, froze the fee via its risk controls, and agreed to refund the sender after they signed a verification message with the sending key.

Tags

#fee#user-error#antpool

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