An expensive mistake of over half a million dollars sparked debates, goodwill, regrets, and controversial opinions in the Bitcoin (BTC) community recently.
It all started with the Bitcoin network fee overpayment of 19.82 BTC ($510,750) from an entity that later was revealed to be Paxos, to the lucky miner who discovered the block: F2Pool, the third largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. This mistake occurred in block height 807057, on September 10.
Transaction with the overpaid Bitcoin fee. Source: mempool.space
Considering the average fee rate in this block, the supposed Paxos fee was overpaid 481,299 times. Block 807057 received a total of 20.013 BTC in fees, of which 99.04% came from this single transaction.
To return or not to return, that is the question
Apparently, after the mistake was made, both entities entered an agreement so the overpaid amount could be returned to the sending address.
However, Wang Chun (@satofishi), co-founder of F2Pool, started a poll on X on September
We współpracy z: https://finbold.com/bitcoin-dev-says-fee-is-a-fee-about-returning-510k-paid-by-mistake/
