As it’s believed it could be a human error dimensions to consider, in the afternoon yesterday a transaction of 0.0001 BTC was sent by a user unknown with a commission network of 291.2409 BTC, equivalent to the time of the transaction at $135,901,74, being processed in the block number 409008, opening a discussion between the Bitcoin community, as you can read in BitcoinTalk and Reddit thread.

Here is the link of the transaction in blockchain

Capture of the erroneous transaction 291 BTC

BitClub would be able to return funds

The Bitcoin mining pool BitClub who was in charge at this time of verifying the operation in blockchain, sent an email to its users to explain this situation, which can remove a piece

Bitclub has said:

“We are currently waiting for someone to reach out to us and claim their mistake so that we can verify them and send their bitcoin back, but so far as of this posting nobody has been able to verify it”

Also, BitClub has said he won a total of 316 BTC (or approximately $147,000) in fees for mining, a figure equivalent to 291 BTC wrong more the reward of 25 BTC network they get for each mining block.

The user who has made the mistake of sending their funds as commission network must be submitted to BitClub to check their status and so are returned their funds. All users are looking forward in this case, because it is unprecedented with operations bitcoin wrong so high.

BitClub has begun an arduous investigation the transaction and is believed to have been possibly sent by a bitcoin mixing service, a type of online offering aimed at privacy and anonymity, which is believed to be associated with illicit use.

What if no one claims its 291 Bitcoins?

The chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, Brock Pierce, has also manifested itself via mail if in a week no one claims the funds:

“We would like to provide a portion to Bitcoin Core development, and will be open for other allocation options that benefit the community as a whole”

Pierce said he believes it’s unlikely that any user who comes to claim because of the risk of being associated with any large transaction and illegal, unregulated potentially.

At press time, BitClub didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Source | Coindesk | BitcoinTalk | Reddit

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