15btc transaction fee, big mistake

[mrkevio]

MAy be someone made a mistake by putting 15 btc fees instead of 15 Mbtc (noob mistake ?)

How noob can someone be to spend.. umm almost $16.000 on fees? We are talking about tens of thousands here. That guy either really didn't know about Bitcoin too much, a kid played with his phone or he wanted to vanish his black money and didn't know what to do, lol. But I am almost 100% sure he didn't do it by mistake. I would be careful with every step I take if I were him.

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[Yuuto]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Well first of all it might not have been a mistake at all. It might have been some flamboyant person trying to show off their stash of bitcoins. They might be the owner of a mining pool, confident that they would mine the next block and get the rewards anyways.

Also fees can be manually set or could be automatically adjusted if you are using an online or desktop bitcoin client.

But yes, if it was a mistake $15,000 isn't a small amonut...

[Chinesegandalf]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

The fee is whatever is left from the inputs that is not spent. If you are using some a wallet this shouldn't happen unless there is a bug.

That what I thought , I've faced this kind of problem but not bug. There Android wallet where u can enter your own amount of fees by your own desire. So it's all manual not auto like these days. This 15 btc fee happen long time ago. Maybe 2-3 years ago if I'm not mistaken. Well sorry to hear his biggest mistake ever. Now when he look back at his mistake , I bet he can't really sleep well hehehe 😂😂

[0xfff]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

The fee is whatever is left from the inputs that is not spent. If you are using some a wallet this shouldn't happen unless there is a bug.

That what I thought , I've faced this kind of problem but not bug. There Android wallet where u can enter your own amount of fees by your own desire. So it's all manual not auto like these days. This 15 btc fee happen long time ago. Maybe 2-3 years ago if I'm not mistaken. Well sorry to hear his biggest mistake ever. Now when he look back at his mistake , I bet he can't really sleep well hehehe 😂😂

I bet he sleeps better than the poor people who mined btc back in the day and can find their wallets. I remember reading a story about someone searching through a landfill for his hard drive because it has a $1 million worth of btc on it.

[Chinesegandalf]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

The fee is whatever is left from the inputs that is not spent. If you are using some a wallet this shouldn't happen unless there is a bug.

That what I thought , I've faced this kind of problem but not bug. There Android wallet where u can enter your own amount of fees by your own desire. So it's all manual not auto like these days. This 15 btc fee happen long time ago. Maybe 2-3 years ago if I'm not mistaken. Well sorry to hear his biggest mistake ever. Now when he look back at his mistake , I bet he can't really sleep well hehehe 😂😂

I bet he sleeps better than the poor people who mined btc back in the day and can find their wallets. I remember reading a story about someone searching through a landfill for his hard drive because it has a $1 million worth of btc on it.

Phew that alot of btc , imagine that Bitcoin by now , double or possibly triple. By the way did he manage to pull out his lost wallet in landfill lol?

[Omega Weapon]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Fees can be set manually if you desire that way you can decide if you want to add a big fee to get a very fast confirmation, or you can send a low fee if time is not really important, I think it was a mistake of someone who was new to sending bitcoins, that is why, even if you have lots of bitcoins you need to send a very low transaction first as a test.

[Chinesegandalf]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Fees can be set manually if you desire that way you can decide if you want to add a big fee to get a very fast confirmation, or you can send a low fee if time is not really important, I think it was a mistake of someone who was new to sending bitcoins, that is why, even if you have lots of bitcoins you need to send a very low transaction first as a test.

That what I thought, maybe he little bit confused with the fee and the total amount he/she supposed to send. Or maybe he/she not really good at English. This person actually from China of I'm not mistaken. I've watched someone from YouTube talk about this huge mistake ever in Bitcoin fee transaction LOL. 😆

[abel1337]

I think a mistake just happen, If I am the sender I will surely be very awful because If I sent the 15 btc for just the transaction fee it is a very big mistake , The miners is surely lucky about this transaction but the sender is surely disappointed with the mistake happened.

[Diced90]

If this person set 15 btc as the transaction fee, then how much was being sent? Am guessing they sent 0.002 btc or something less as the mistakenly swapped the two  because that's the only logical explanation I have come up with.

[Sithara007]

If this person set 15 btc as the transaction fee, then how much was being sent? Am guessing they sent 0.002 btc or something less as the mistakenly swapped the two  because that's the only logical explanation I have come up with.

If you are not agreeing with the default tx fee, then you need to be extra-careful. Had this guy used the default fee, then at the most he might have paid BTC0.001 or BTC0.002 as the transaction fee. He tried to lower it, and as a result lost all his coins.

So what happened in the end? Did the miners reimbursed the coins to the person? Or they kept it?

[Marma Kalari]

It happens when you dont know to count which i dont believe having this much coins in their arsenal or forget using the googles ,always use power glasses while sending coins if you are blind or ask for assistance . to send 3 BTC he sent 15.6 BTC what a funny story it would have being.

[qiman]

That is very sad for whoever sent such a large fee. I wonder if the fee was put in manually or it was an error caused in the blockchain. Whatever it was I really feel bad for the unfortunate person who paid the chunky fee.

[romero121]

This is unfortunate that happened due to mistakes due to carelessness. Somehow it has benefited the miners and the user seems to be the unluckiest person. If he had lost through gambling he could have not worried much, because already everyone know the risk of gambling.

[Weatherby]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Epic blunder. There should exist some chargeback function for fee blunders.

There is no charge back function if you do some blunders and that is how bitcoin works.This might be a test done by the developers to check how things go and i am sure no one with sane mind would do these kind of things.

[TastyChillySauce00]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Epic blunder. There should exist some chargeback function for fee blunders.

As long as it only returns the fees to the sender for a specific amount and still left the required minimum fees then it's fine otherwise if the thing works like PayPal's chargeback it might be a bad idea.
And unfortunately it seem that this feature is just never be implemented into bitcoin though, just my 2 cents

[Blitzboy]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Yeah I'm having the same thought, this has happened a long time ago, at least it's enough for bitcoin's price to go sky high, and I can't even imagine how much 15 bitcoin is right now. I mean if I ever made such mistake, it would strike me down and I think I wouldn't live for long Anyways I have a deep sorrow for that man, it must have been a difficult time for him to gain back what've lost.

[gredisgold88]

https://blockchain.info/tx/6fe69404e6c12b25b60fcd56cc6dc9fb169b24608943def6dbe1eb0a9388ed08

 

wow , I was very fascinated by this, 1.5 BTC for fee

[DRaGoN RaNTaRo]

I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Yeah I'm having the same thought, this has happened a long time ago, at least it's enough for bitcoin's price to go sky high, and I can't even imagine how much 15 bitcoin is right now. I mean if I ever made such mistake, it would strike me down and I think I wouldn't live for long Anyways I have a deep sorrow for that man, it must have been a difficult time for him to gain back what've lost.

There is nothing to be sorry for.At the time it does mean shit to him and the valuation at that time was such it doesnt mean you lost much .No one expected the price to rise like this and if anyone had any clue everyone would be jumping on to this ship on hearing about it in the first place and i am sure no one does that.

[mindrust]

Blockchain do not forgive dumb actions. There is no way back.

You have to check all of your bitcoin related actions twice before you execute them. (you better check them triple if you have a weak memory or experienced a situation like the one in the topic title in the past.)

You may do a mistake while using regular banking and ask for their help but not with blockchain. No customer service here.

[qiwoman2]

OMG That so much sux bad. I hope the person that had to pay for that whopper fee didn't have a heart problem and ticker failure. I think I would have been mortified lol if that was me.