The miners found the unit containing the transaction with a commission of 80 BTC

On July 7, the BTC.com mining pool found the block containing the transaction, with the attached commission, in the amount of 80 BTC (200 thousand $).

BTC.com's miners decided that such high commissions were the result of a mistake, because, given the size of the transaction, the commission was to be about 2 BTC and now the miners are going to return the difference to the sender.

The Chinese mining pool of BTC.com reported that it is not interested in taking high commissions and is ready to return them to the sender if he can prove that the transaction was originally owned by him.

"Recently, the BTC.com pool found a block containing a transaction with an incredible commission of 80BTC," explains the official blog of the pool, "obviously, there has been some mistake. By and large, the commission was to make 2 BTC. If you sent this transaction, we want to help you. We do not chase fast money, especially at the expense of other people's losses. Therefore, we want to contact you. If you are the one who sent this transaction, let us refund your money. "

This is not the case for the first time in the history of Bitcoin. For example, in April 2016 in the block block # 409,008 a transaction was sent with a commission of 291,241 BTC - it was picked up by mining the BitClub pool. The transaction was found by one miner, not the entire distributed pool, and BitClub decided to return the commission to the user if he can prove that he has access to the wallet from which the transaction was sent. Unfortunately, it turned out that the transaction went through a bitcoin mixer, which made the return impossible. As a result, Bitclub donated half of the Bitcoin Foundation funds.