{"id":39862,"date":"2025-04-08T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/?p=39862"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:24:52","slug":"panicked-bitcoiner-loses-over-70k-in-rbf-fee-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/panicked-bitcoiner-loses-over-70k-in-rbf-fee-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Panicked Bitcoiner Loses Over $70K in RBF Fee Error!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after midnight UTC on April 8, a Bitcoin<\/strong> user mistakenly paid 0.75 BTC<\/strong> ($70,500) in transaction fees due to a panic-driven use of replace-by-fee (RBF)<\/strong>. The transaction was the user\u2019s second attempt to push a prior transaction through by raising the fee and changing the destination address. In the final version, a newly added unspent transaction output (UTXO) ended up being included fully in the fee.<\/p>\n

The initial transaction used a “default or conservative” fee setting. The user\u2019s first RBF attempt doubled the fee and altered the output address. But instead of confirming either of these transactions, a final RBF with a dramatically higher fee overrode them, causing the entire amount of the change \u2014 0.75 BTC \u2014 to be included as miner reward.<\/p>\n

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