Largest fee ever?

[nimda]

I recently saw a .5 BTC fee on a tx covering hundreds of BTC. That got me thinking... what is the largest fee ever paid?

[mufa23]

14+ Trillion... oh wait, not paid yet...

[rjk]

I don't have a link or know when it was, but I recall discussion of a 140+BTC fee that was paid to Deepbit at one point.

[ForceField]

I recently saw a .5 BTC fee on a tx covering hundreds of BTC. That got me thinking... what is the largest fee ever paid?

I don't believe it's possible to sort blockexplorer or blockchain.info by fee size.

Over 185200 blocks now, how would it even be possible to efficiently find this out?

[giszmo]

I recently saw a .5 BTC fee on a tx covering hundreds of BTC. That got me thinking... what is the largest fee ever paid?

I don't believe it's possible to sort blockexplorer or blockchain.info by fee size.

Over 185200 blocks now, how would it even be possible to efficiently find this out?

Sorting 185k (id,fee)-pairs by fee would take … less than 0.05s.

[bpd]

Here's an 85 BTC fee:

http://blockchain.info/tx-index/2195506/1dbd420f23f8ac58b994c7b84f8667670dfcad39ec9f34e555a0c6281b7e2c04

Looks accidental, but who knows...

[nimda]

Hmm... I'm wondering about downloading the blockchain, then writing a program to go through the TX's and look for a fat fee...

[bpd]

Based on http://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees it can't be any bigger than 300. That's how I found the 85 BTC fee, by looking at blocks around the 300BTC daily fee spike.

[theymos]

This transaction has the largest fee so far:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9

[Spekulatius]

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