Someone mistakenly sent 0.0001 BTC with a commission of 291 BTC

291 BTC - about $ 137,000 at the current rate

Bitcoin-trader ActualAdviceBTC noticed an unusual transaction yesterday . “It seems that some idiot listed 0.0001 BTC with a commission of 291.241 BTC, and not vice versa. Here are the stoned, ”he wrote.

Indeed, this transaction was confirmed yesterday and included in block 409 008 in the blockchain.



A generous commission was received by the Dutch mining pool BitClub Network .

In the bitcoin community, there was a discussion about who this anonymous sender, who lost $ 137 thousand. At the moment, the average commission for transferring bitcoins is about 31 satosi , or about $ 0.01.

To establish such a large commission, you need to especially try, specifically activate the option "Selective Commission" and manually enter this number there. By default, for example, the Bitcoin Core client assigns the recommended commission automatically.



To the credit of the Dutch from the pool of the BitClub Network, they statedabout the desire to return the money that inadvertently fell on them. The problem is to establish the identity of the sender. The person strictly observed anonymity and transferred money through a “laundering service”, which anonymizes payments, mixing bitcoins from the addresses of different senders in his wallet. Such services are often used by criminals so that payments cannot be traced.