Paxos set up the transaction incorrectly and accidentally paid miners 20 bitcoins in fees. The mining pool is now voting on whether or not to return the funds. We'll use the same options as pool boss Chung Wang. Please vote. Original post on X: https://twitter.com/satofishi/status/1702095123981738437
Refund Paxos 20 BTC as is19.6%
Distribute it to miners58.9%
Go fifty-fifty14.3%
Just freeze it7.1%
56 votes \ poll ended
Yes, it should be added that the transaction was apparently created by PayPal as a payment for stablecoins from Paxos. PayPal, which routinely blocks people's accounts and freezes transactions without reason.
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Lol is this a little preview of what drivechains will be like? :P
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They should consider returning the coins in question to Paxos/Paypal but only if the Paypal CEO goes through full KYC/AML and provides proof of legal source for each UTXO they mistakingly combined into miner's fee. Let them taste their own medicine.
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This takes six months to review. AML laws are complex.
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No.
A miner chose that transaction for the fees. History was written in the blockchain. You can't rewrite history.
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There is no need to make changes in blockchain. The mining pool can send other bitcoin, as a show of goodwill.
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True, no need to change the past, but they fucked up. No need to give them anything back.
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I have another idea. Let's use this 20BTC to set up a foundation that sole purpose would be providing a free legal advise and representation for people and small businesses that suffered from PayPal unfair decision to just close their account / freeze their funds, etc.
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With price of lawyers you will use 20 bitcoin for solve one case :)
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Nah.......it's a lesson....
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just distribute it amongst the miners, probably the best thing
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I accidentally overpaid on a lot of my old transactions. Miners should refund me too right?...Right?
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Did you overpaid transaction 481299x ? :-D
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