Only send it to that single miner and hope no one fucked up keeping the TX secret. As QS said its still dangerous and might motivate miners to fork the chain in order to get the fee. The fee is worth ~11 blockrewards. If a miner notices this fast enough they could try an attack.


Use a better wallet. E.g. Electrum shows a pop up before you send the already signed(!) TX. Not by default but it can be set if you are the kind of person that is likely to send 200 BTC as fee. Bitcoin core outright refuses to send TX with a fee over a certain amount. 0.1 BTC IIRC. Im sure many other wallets have protection against this as well.

Wow?? how lucky that guy is really?? dang it.

Little update. BitClub network officially confirmed that they'll return funds to the unlucky sender, if he asks for it.

https://twitter.com/sysmannet/status/725106560662380544

Genuine mistake or risky PR stunt? We may never know.

It appears that BitClub has the bitcoins, but how are they able to give it back?
Is the fee not divided for the miners and they already have withdrawn?

A more general question, where does the fee actually goes when I make a transaction, to the miner right? Then how is it possible to return the btc to the owner? Are the miner their account freezed and then the take back the fee and pay the owner?

So someone just made a mistake with putting the fee instead of the transaction amount or he bribes the mining pool. Rather shady stuff right here.

Send directly to the miner and the others will see it only after the block is mined.

Twitter deleted
Anyone got a backup copy of it somewhere ?


Probably just accident, it can happen even if it was an absurd one

There has been a few mistakes where people set fee higher than the coins itself, I think there's another case few months ago where someone set 2BTC as a fee, but this is a new all time high for a mistake (Considering if it was a mistake and not some kind of shady operations)


And how did we know who is the real owner ?
Anyone can say it was their lost money

Its better not a mistake,   

I think someone made a mistake tweaking the transaction fees on electrum. Hope the miner returns him at least 40% of his shares.


F2Pool did that another time.

Actually I think there should be a hard limit imposed on how high transaction fee can be. It should be implemented in the bitcoin code.
There is no way in hell I can foresee we would want to pay more than 1 BTC ever for confirming transaction.