This is an unusual case and exceeded 10 times more than the previous case of 1.8 btc paid in 2017. An unidentified user in November 2023 made one of the biggest mistakes in the history of Bitcoins by paying $710,000 (20 btc) approximately to receive (0.2 btc) 7,400 dollars.
Nobody knows why this user made a mistake of gigantic proportions, many calculate that it could have been an oversight when typing the rate, or it could have been a failure in the wallet with which he was operating, which cost him a great fortune.
This unusual transaction was confirmed by the F2pool mining pool, which is responsible for validating these types of transactions on the btc network and collecting the corresponding fees. Wang Chun, co-founder of F2pool, said that the 20 btc would be frozen for 3 days, long enough for this careless user to claim said fortune, otherwise the btc would be distributed among the miners.
This case reminds us to always be attentive when carrying out transactions of this nature, doing so very carefully to avoid committing these horrors. Regarding the protagonist of this story, we do not know if he was able to recover his money by wrongly paying the price of 20 btc to receive 0.4 btc.
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Text: Nawelpy