The F2Pool mining pool has decided to return the approximately 20 Bitcoin (BTC) mega-fee paid to Paxos a few days ago.
This was a curious voluntary decision, since they were not required to return it at all. However, probably to maintain good relations with crypto operators, they decided to deprive themselves of more than half a million dollars they earned honestly.
The 20 Bitcoin (BTC) mega-fee: F2Pool returns it to Paxos
This story begins on 10 September, when within the 807,057 block that had just been mined on Bitcoin’s blockchain was included a transaction that had paid the miners a reckless 19.82 BTC fee.
There was no logical reason why anyone should have had to pay such a high fee, amounting to about $510,000, so much so that it was immediately thought to be a mistake.
It is sufficient to consider that it was enough to pay even less than one thousandth of 19 BTC to have the transaction placed in the first available block, so that amount was far from justified.
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