15btc transaction fee, big mistake

[cjmoles]

Looking at the other transactions associated with that address, it looks like a pass through address.  That whole 22 BTC's was sent just prior to that "fat finger" transaction, and there's another receive-send pair for the entire amount just before that one.  So, it looks manipulated to me.

[greenuser]

Holy f.......
......Lucky for whoever mined block #   400893 though, must be a big payoff...

As i understand it, if some solo loto miner at cksolo pool mined the block, it would be the pool owner ck that picked up the BTC15.  The miner would have the usual BTC25. Not that it happend that way but interesting all the same.

How many individuals solo mine?  Lucky pool owner hay.

[pooya87]

why do people make these mistakes. cause this is not the first time nor the highest i have seen ~100BTC fee too, and there is no way someone makes this mistake while using a bitcoin wallet with an interface!

are they doing it by hand, like a code they edited to sign TX like in bot?!

[arklan]

why do people make these mistakes. cause this is not the first time nor the highest i have seen ~100BTC fee too, and there is no way someone makes this mistake while using a bitcoin wallet with an interface!

are they doing it by hand, like a code they edited to sign TX like in bot?!

quite possibly. heck, it could have been a bot entirely doing the trade for all we know.

[nanonymousx]

Someone would like make a statement about something? Maybe some miner did it, just to show us normal user, we should all generous about fees.

[taxmanmt5]

I guess the sender would be kicking himself as he has lost a hefty amount transacting this transaction

At the same time The pool owner will be blushing himself on getting that much money which he would not have expected even in his wild dreams

[jtipt]

Why would someone do that ! Its most likely to be a typing error maybe the person was entering 0.15 BTC or something.

[Next BillGates]

  this mistake is the worst i have seen till now. ouch! a hard bite for the sender who has to pay the 15btc now from his own pocket but what the hell on earth was going in the brain of that user. is it just for popularity or to make loss insted of profit.this type of things became mistry just like satoshi

[BellaBitBit]

Yikes, I would not be feeling good right now. What kind of wallet or interface would allow you to do that?  There should be a double pop up confirmation for this or wallet software that can detect if it is clearly a mistake. 

[Kakmakr]

That is going to be one pissed off Russian, if you ask me. It looks like the node being used were somewhere in Russia. Lesson : Never transfer money when you had a little too much Vodka. ^hic^ Why do you think this is
being manipulated? It could just be some typo or someone desperate to get a urgent transaction through. Just last week, I made a mistake in internet banking and I transferred double the amount I owed to a service I had to pay. Now I have to wait 21 days for this service to return the money. It sucks and I feel for this person, because he has to hope some miners takes pity on him and return some of his fee. ^hmmm^  

[Amph]

maybe he is a miners? or control a very large portion of the mining activity, a bit of a joke but it could be  

the mining fee is divided proportionally by the hash of the miners right? if you have 1/10 of the hash you get 1/10 of the total fee?

[TipZ]

Buying stuff while drunk can make you do those kind of error...

[lottery248]

that's unexpectedly funny.
that miner is now enjoying big money with their miners, no matter pool or not. this led to faster block halving however.

[1Referee]

I just noticed it, that must hurt for that person. Someone's loss is a win for the other. F2Pool will surely not complain about it. Nowadays there are more and more blocks where the total amount of collected fees exceeds 1BTC. I think one day ago I have seen one block with more than 4BTC in fees.

[NeuroticFish]

My guess is that either somebody tried to learn how to make transactions by hand, either he/she thought that's playing on testnet.
However, it seems to be somehow software development related.

Just I cannot imagine who would do tests with such a fat wallet.

[trace666]

the mining fee is divided proportionally by the hash of the miners right? if you have 1/10 of the hash you get 1/10 of the total fee?

No. Only one party (the one mining the block) will get 100% of the money.

[algin8189]

Srsly.. I wish I've 30t/h for mine that coin.. 25 plus 15... Omg.. That person could just buy 20 unit s7 foc

[Amph]

the mining fee is divided proportionally by the hash of the miners right? if you have 1/10 of the hash you get 1/10 of the total fee?

No. Only one party (the one mining the block) will get 100% of the money.

wait, how it work with pool then? it must be divided in the end, or the pool get all the money from fees?

[pedrog]

At least he got his transaction confirmed quickly.

F2Pool will return his money, I guess.

[trace666]

the mining fee is divided proportionally by the hash of the miners right? if you have 1/10 of the hash you get 1/10 of the total fee?

No. Only one party (the one mining the block) will get 100% of the money.

wait, how it work with pool then? it must be divided in the end, or the pool get all the money from fees?

The pool gets all the money (25 BTC+fees) and can then distribute the money to its users. Or not, depending on the pool operator and its rules. This is not part of the bitcoin protocol.