It turned out that the company that mistakenly paid a transaction fee of $ 500 thousand for a Bitcoin (BTC) transfer of approximately $ 200 was the US-based stablecoin issuer Paxos.
Just one account recently $200 for a Bitcoin transfer 500 thousand dollars worth 19.89 BTC It came to the fore by paying it as a transaction fee. It turned out that Paxos was the one who carried out this transaction.
While the team stated that this situation was due to an error, refund of transaction fee He started searching to get it. This erroneous transaction gave Paxos the title of institution paying the highest transaction fee in dollar terms for a Bitcoin transfer.
What about 20 BTC?
It was soon understood that Paxos received this transaction fee from F2Pool, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools that undertakes that transaction. F2Pool co-founder ChunWang The first social media post he shared about the subject in the postapproximately 20 BTC that all the Bitcoins are in his own accounts and if he is not reached within three days regarding this situation, he will lose all the Bitcoins. will distribute to miners he stated.
Wang posted a new post on September 14, three days after his first post. sharing by doing a started voting and consulted the community what decision it should make. freeze bitcoins, split it in half, return them all to Paxos And divide among miners At the time the news was being written, the voting options included 36% In proportion, the share option among miners predominates.
In a statement to The Block, a Paxos spokesperson said that the error in question occurred only in that particular transaction and that other All customer funds are safe is stated:
Paxos overpaid the BTC network fee on September 10, 2023. This only affected Paxos’ corporate operations. Paxos customers and end users are unaffected and all customer funds are safe.