Foundry USA Pool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool by hash rate, recently took action over an accidental overpayment of 8.18 BTC in transaction fees (worth around $777,000).
At this point, Foundry USA Pool attracted market attention by refunding the large amount of transaction fees that were mistakenly paid.
BTC Block 875475 was mined on the Foundry USA Pool, where a user paid 8.18 BTC for a transaction, which is 91,127 times the required fee.
The mining pool, which did not remain indifferent to this situation, reached out to the user and refunded the excess fee.
Foundry USA Pool said in a statement that this refund does not affect payments for its regular customers and that its payment system does not take into account the three highest and three lowest transaction fees each day.
“On December 19, Foundry USA Pool mined block 875475, which contained a Bitcoin transaction in which the user inadvertently paid a fee of 8.18 BTC, which was 91,127 times more than was required to be included in the block.
Our Foundry team contacted the affected individual and after careful consideration, decided to refund the overage fee.
We have received many messages from across the industry and would like to extend our thanks to everyone who reached out to us on behalf of their users.
We would like to point out that this decision was made after a comprehensive evaluation and that we will continue to address such situations on a case-by-case basis.”
This incident involving Foundry USA Pool is not an isolated incident in Bitcoin mining. It is the second such incident in recent months, following a similar incident in which Antpool was forced to refund $3 million worth of Bitcoin transaction fees after a user error led to the highest fee ever paid on the Bitcoin network in November 2023.
Because in November 2023, another mining pool, Antpool, also returned the extraordinarily high transaction fee of 83.6 BTC, which was approximately $ 3.1 million at that time, to the user.
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