A Bitcoin user who claimed to be the victim of the record $3 million transaction fee incident a few days ago said he was hacked.
On Thursday, a Bitcoin user accidentally over $3.1 million has a value 83.65 BTC Turns out he was paying a transaction fee. This fee, a new record in US dollars for a single Bitcoin transaction, is more than six times the previous record fee of $500,000 paid in September.
The person who claims to be the victim of this incident will receive a fee on Friday at X, similar to the transaction fee he paid. @83_5BTC He opened an account under his name. 83_5BTC, “I opened a new cold wallet, transferred 139 BTC to it, but they were instantly transferred to another wallet” he said and regarding how the incident might have happened, “The only thing I can think of is that someone ran a script on that wallet and in the script there was a strange calculation for the transaction fee.” he commented.
during the procedure 55.77 BTC to be transferred Fee of 83.65 BTC paid. 83_5BTC, “55 BTC lost forever. “We will see 83.5 BTC” said.
The user signed a message from the Bitcoin address that was the subject of the transaction and said, “@83_5BTC is the owner of the funds for which a large amount of fees were paid.” Mononaut, the developer of Mempool, confirmed the signature and said that these coins belong to 83_5BTC. told.
However, Mononaut warns that if the account is taken over by someone else, the message will be deleted. It may also have been signed by the attacker. added.
The transaction made in block 818.087 was mined by AntPool, one of the mining pools. It is unknown whether Antpool will refund the money to the user. However, if such a decision is made, the user authentication It will be necessary.