An Unknown User Incurs More Than $80,000 in Transaction Fees When Sending BTC...

An Unknown User Incurs More Than $80,000 in Transaction Fees When Sending BTC...

An unknown person incurred a transaction fee of more than $80,000 or (3.49079570 bitcoins) when transferring bitcoin worth $1.16. According to Blockchain.com, the December 19 transaction, which is included in block 662052, had an input of 3.49084570 bitcoin and an output of 0.00005000 bitcoin. As one report explains, the unusually high fee may have been the result of an “error made by the bitcoin user when manually constructing the transaction details.” However, as Alex Lebed the head of development at Xsigma Defi tells news.Bitcoin.com, this may have happened “because....


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