Unluckiest transaction ever? 291 BTC miners fee, mined by BitClub

[alani123]

tx cc455ae816e6cdafdb58d54e35d4f46d860047458eacf1c7405dc634631c570d

Best of luck to that person!

[mirana12345]

It really is unlucky at the best. Sure hope the user will recover from such loss.
Btw there's already a thread about the same transaction here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1451924.0

[BitFomo]

Oh man, I would lose my shit if that was me.

[Evildrum]

Did this not just happen a month ago as well?

Seem to recall another high miners fee involving a transaction as well. The fact people have enough bitcoins to cover the fee is something,guess this is what you call whale issues as I do not think the majority of us would end up having this transaction go through.

[alani123]

Not "unluckiest transaction ever".  I've seen transactions that have accidentally paid transaction fees with more BTC than that.

It is a mistake that is going to upset someone quite a bit though.

BitClub is an MLM scheme though, do you think they have the ethic to return the coins?

[DannyHamilton]

BitClub is an MLM scheme though, do you think they have the ethic to return the coins?

Unknown.  But it seems unlikely to me.

[cjmoles]

Did this not just happen a month ago as well?

Seem to recall another high miners fee involving a transaction as well. The fact people have enough bitcoins to cover the fee is something,guess this is what you call whale issues as I do not think the majority of us would end up having this transaction go through.

Yes...something like this did happen a month ago.  I think that there's something else going on here than just simple fat fingered over-site.  I wouldn't know where to begin with the "hows" and "whys" but it does seem strange that figures like that keep "accidentally" being broadcast!  Is it an "Ouch!" or a "Nice manipulation!"

[alani123]

BitClub is an MLM scheme though, do you think they have the ethic to return the coins?

Unknown.  But it seems unlikely to me.

That's why I think it's extremely unlucky. In several other cases transaction with huge fees by mistake were returned by the mining pool. After some quick googling I found three cases:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3jnadz/093_lost_btc_in_transaction_fee_bitfury/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=602152.0
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lb5my/asicminer_refunds_the_accidental_200_btc/

Also blockchain.info's historical chart shows today's fee spike to be one of the biggest ones:

https://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

[evergrow]

observing this! hope the one who made the mistake is going to get it back.

[Quartx]

Oh wow.... I wonder how the mistake of setting such a high fee occurred... On a side note, good for the miners i guess

[DannyHamilton]

Also blockchain.info's historical chart shows today's fee spike to be one of the biggest ones:

https://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

You're right.  The other transactions with huge fees that I was thinking of actually had smaller fees than I had remembered.  I've deleted my post claiming that it wasn't.

Perhaps is actually is the "unluckiest transaction ever".

At least as a single transaction.  Depending on how you define luck.  Obviously the transaction(s) that took all of the confiscated silk road bitcoins would perhaps be more "unlucky" in terms of total amount lost to the government.

[aso118]

We should wait and see whether the fees are refunded, before this transaction can be called the unluckiest ever.
If they are refunded, I will call it the luckiest transaction ever. 

[ingenuity]

luckiest man ever, He might be an instant millionare, But what happened to that? Human error? Script.error?

[alani123]

Seems like a bitfury person posting on behalf of BitClub said they'll return the coins if the sender requests them and goes through verification... Is this an official account?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4gkira/hey_bitclub_network_will_you_do_the_right_thing/d2imz2b

[alyssa85]

Seems like a bitfury person posting on behalf of BitClub said they'll return the coins if the sender requests them and goes through verification... Is this an official account?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4gkira/hey_bitclub_network_will_you_do_the_right_thing/d2imz2b

I hope it's true - that's an awful thing to have happened.

Perhaps wallets need to do validation - for example, if the fee is greater than the amount being sent, a simple warning message should come up saying "Warning fee too high, do you want to go ahead"? Most mistakes like this can be prevented with simple validations.