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Re:Someone pays $500k fee to send $1,865 by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:13PM (#37474412)
See the post below why this is unlikely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473536
Re:Someone pays $500k fee to send $1,865 by ryanschaefer on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:40PM (#37475611)
That’s not what this person is saying. What they’re saying is that the miner (in this case the same person as the sender) signed a transaction with an insane fee and kept it private. The miner then solved a block. Finally, the miner then includes their transaction in the block because they’re allowed to pick what transactions to include. This would only happen for a “memey” reason because the miner is technically losing out on a transactions worth of fees but it does generate headlines like this which I would say would be worth $1-3.

Not likely what happened in this case but theoretically possible with the technology.