{"id":87703,"date":"2023-11-30T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87703"},"modified":"2025-09-13T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:30:21","slug":"antpool-to-refund-record-bitcoin-fee-of-3-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/antpool-to-refund-record-bitcoin-fee-of-3-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"AntPool to refund record Bitcoin fee of $3.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AntPool mining pool, which received a record transaction fee of $3.1 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antpool.com\/newsDetail\/457-Announcement%20for%20Claiming%2083BTC%20Gas%20Fee\">has said it is prepared to reimburse it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pool representatives said that, after receiving the funds, they were temporarily frozen.<\/p>\n<p>The sender was asked to get in touch by December 10 and verify their identity by signing with Electrum or Bitcoin Core.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, CKPool administrator noted that on November 30 AntPool mined an empty block with no transactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, Antpool mines another header-only block with no transactions only a short while ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qq3TuhiN2v\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qq3TuhiN2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Con Kolivas (@ckpooldev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ckpooldev\/status\/1730082664189968843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back on November 23, an unknown user who transferred 55.77 BTC ($2.1 million) <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/unknown-user-pays-a-3-1m-fee-for-a-single-bitcoin-transaction\">paid<\/a> a fee of 83.65 BTC ($3.1 million).<\/p>\n<p>Later the transaction sender said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/man-who-paid-a-record-3-1m-in-bitcoin-fees-says-he-was-hacked\">had become a victim of hackers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AntPool mining pool, which received a record transaction fee of $3.1 million, has said it is prepared to reimburse it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87704,"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-87703","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":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87703","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=87703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87705,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87703\/revisions\/87705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}