{"id":87433,"date":"2023-11-23T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87433"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:47:26","slug":"unknown-user-pays-a-3-1m-fee-for-a-single-bitcoin-transaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/unknown-user-pays-a-3-1m-fee-for-a-single-bitcoin-transaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown user pays a $3.1m fee for a single Bitcoin transaction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 23, an unknown user, in a transfer of 55.77 BTC ($2.1m), paid <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/tx\/b5a2af5845a8d3796308ff9840e567b14cf6bb158ff26c999e6f9a1f5448f9aa\">a fee of 83.65 BTC<\/a> ($3.1m). This marks a new record for the dollar-denominated reward miners receive for confirming a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation at 9:59 UTC (11:00 Kyiv time \/ 12:00 MSK), the sender overpaid by a factor of 120,528 and left with a zero balance. The average fee in the Bitcoin network at the time of writing stands at 0.00028 BTC ($10.51), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/ru\/comparison\/bitcoin-transactionfees.html#3y\">BitInfoCharts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The user&#8217;s wallet was created on November 23, and prior to paying the record fee, it conducted three transactions. The receiving address is also relatively new \u2014 dating from October 16.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchair.com\/bitcoin\/transaction\/b5a2af5845a8d3796308ff9840e567b14cf6bb158ff26c999e6f9a1f5448f9aa\">Blockchair<\/a>, the transaction was included in block #818,087, mined by AntPool. Representatives of the mining pool have not yet commented on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on September 10, the infrastructure blockchain company Rahos <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/unknown-user-paid-510000-in-fees-to-transfer-0-074-btc\">paid<\/a> 19.82 BTC ($510,750) to miners as a fee for transferring 0.074 BTC (~$1,800).<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of F2Pool said that, after the necessary checks, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-identify-paxos-as-the-sender-of-a-bitcoin-transaction-with-a-510000-fee\">returned to the company<\/a> its bitcoins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 23, an unknown user paid a fee of 83.65 BTC ($3.1m) in a transfer of 55.77 BTC ($2.1m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[226,18,1178,1227],"class_list":["post-87433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-antpool","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain-fees","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87435,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87433\/revisions\/87435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}