Crypto Miners Debate $500K Bitcoin Fee Refund to Paxos for 'Fat-Fingers' Error

Crypto Miners Debate $500K Bitcoin Fee Refund to Paxos for ‘Fat-Fingers’ Error


Bitcoin miners are pondering the refund of a hefty $500,000 bitcoin (BTC) fee paid by crypto services company Paxos for a mere $2,000 bitcoin transaction earlier this week – an incident the latter blamed was “due to a bug.”

Paxos’ transaction was picked up by mining company Stake.fish, which uses its computing resources to mine and stake several networks. Stake.fish founder Chun Wang said in an X post earlier this week that whoever was behind that transaction had three days to claim the transaction and likely receive a refund.

A bitcoin fee is what a user pays to miners, or entities who maintain the network, to get their

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