Mining pool wants to donate 291 Bitcoin, which “Zwielichte Source” has accidentally paid for as a fee

Mining pool wants to donate 291 Bitcoin, which “Zwielichte Source” has accidentally paid for as a fee
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Imagine someone accidentally sends you 291 Bitcoin – and everyone looks at. This happened to the mining pool Bitclub yesterday. An accident raven has bitcoins worth more than 120.Sent 000 euros as a fee. Now Bitclub is looking for the owner of the money.

There are things that you want from you never did them. A wrong word said and broken a relationship dispute from the fence; Not careful at a moment and the car driven to the tree. Or just sent a transaction in which you have confused the amount and fee.

Difficult to say how something like this happens, but it happens. This proves this transaction that the mining pool Bitclub blocked yesterday. A stranger did not send 291 Bitcoin with a fee of 0.0001 Bitcoin, but – you can imagine it. With 316 Bitcoin reward, the block with the height 409008 was the most profitable in the history of Bitcoin mining.

Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, which is very unfavorable in this case. The arbitrariness of the miner’s. If he is nice, he pays back the 291 Bitcoin when he is greedy, he leaves it. After all, the blockchain is transparent, which is an advantage in this case. Because everyone knows that it was the pool Bitclub who gave the transaction.

Immediately after this spectacular transaction was spotted, there was promptly prompt to do with Twitter and Reddit, “the right one”. There is no mechanism to get the money back, but a moral pressure to return it.

What it looks like, the pool follows the admonitions. Davidrind meat from the Bitclub support team wrote on Reddit: “We are currently waiting for someone to report and prove that he is the transmitter of the transaction so that we can send him backcoins back him.“So far, nobody has contacted them yet. The transaction itself calls Davidrind meat “Unique”: “It looks like the first block as if it comes from a mixing service or a kind of automated payment script that had a malfunction.”

If nobody reports, “we’ll give you back to the Bitcoin community! We think that these bitcoins do not belong to us or our members, and because it was a mistake from someone who looks like a dodgy source, we want to use it to do something good.“If the owner does not report within a week, Bitclub donates the 291 Bitcoins. Plans are to give them to the Bitcoin Core development, to the Bitcoin Foundation and to other Charities that suggests the community.

“This gives us the opportunity to prove that we are one of the good, even though we wear the stigma to be an MLM,” according to Davidrindfleisch, “we hope that this opens the eyes of what kind of organization we are, but frankly it is more likely that people continue to believe what they want to believe and we continue to do what we have been doing since the start of Bitclub: Our business: our business:.”

The BitClub network has the worst reputation among all Bitcoin mining pools. The reason is that it operates multi-level marketing (MLM) and is therefore almost automatically mentally placed near pyramid games. In the affair of the 291-bitcoin fees, MLM behaves so exemplary that some have already meant that this is a broken game with the aim of operating PR. But we don’t want to be too negative at this point. Bitclub’s reaction deserves praise – but not absolutely the business model.