A wallet owned by cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex paid a total of $23.7 million in transaction fees for a $100,000 Tether transfer to DeversiFi exchange’s wallet.
Although the cost of Ethereum transactions is always talked about, the transfer transaction that took place yesterday went down in history as the highest paid transaction to date.
A DeversiFi spokesperson stated in his statement on the subject that this was an erroneous transaction and that they were investigating to determine how this happened and that no client funds in DeversiFi were at risk.
The miner of the block, which was paid a transaction fee of 23.7 million dollars by mistake, decided to return almost all the funds.
Earlier in the day, DeversiFi exchange shared that he thanked the miner on his Twitter account, who returned the transaction fee.
The blockchain is immutable.
But the revolution we are part of is defined by our values as humans.⁰⁰
Thank you to the miner of block 13307440 who we can confirm is returning 7626 ETH that were incorrectly paid today as a tx fee.
A post mortem will follow tomorrow. https://t.co/FqkEZ9DK8P
— DeversiFi 🥷 (@deversifi) September 27, 2021
Bitfinex’s Chief Technology Officer, Paolo Ardoino, said: “We thank the miner for being proactive and fair. And thanks to Binance for helping contact us. Funds have been returned to the source address.” said.