On November 23, an unknown Bitcoin owner sent 139.4 BTC to AntPool, generating over $3 million in fees.
According to journalist Colin Wu, the transaction fee was 83.65 BTC.
Data from analytics platform Whale Alert shows that the user paid $3.14 million to send the funds. This is one of the largest commissions in the history of the crypto industry. The source claims that the AntPool mining pool received the reward for this transfer.
At the time of publication, AntPool representatives had no comment on the transaction. It is also not known what exactly caused the high transaction fees. As the load on the network increases, transaction fees may also increase.
This is not the first case of abnormally high fees on the Bitcoin network. In September, an unknown counterparty paid more than $510,000 to transfer 0.074 BTC. Later it turned out that this mistake was made by the Paxos company.
Later, Wang Chong, co-founder of mining pool F2Pool, reported that 20 BTC that was accidentally sent as commission was returned to Paxos.
