Miner returns over $500K in BTC transaction fee overpayment to Paxos

A Bitcoin (BTC) miner who received 19.8 BTC in fees from blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos has returned the funds after it claimed the company made a mistake in paying over $500,000 in transfer fees.

F2Pool have sent the 19.82108632 BTC fee overpayment back to Paxos https://t.co/IB32RNq5uO

— mempool (@mempool) September 15, 2023

On Sept. 10, the crypto community was puzzled after seeing a BTC transaction that paid around $500,000 in fees to move around $2,000, with the average network…