PLEASE HELP.. I sent a transaction with a 2.5 BTC transaction fee

[Voiceeeeee]

Please help, please, I sent a transaction with a $3000 fee by mistake, I can't afford to lose this much I am saving for college

Please help anyone

https://blockchain.info/tx/4d45a14ee7320b97bafd550d60df1a1be524f3cfc8ca1ea6295279eeb7026aff

What can I do?

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[jonald_fyookball]

Please help, please, I sent a transaction with a $3000 fee by mistake, I can't afford to lose this much I am saving for college

Please help anyone

https://blockchain.info/tx/4d45a14ee7320b97bafd550d60df1a1be524f3cfc8ca1ea6295279eeb7026aff

What can I do?

You can contact the mining pool and plead your case. 

Unfortunately, that's about all you can do.  Good luck.

[xhomerx10]

Please explain how you made this mistake so that others can learn from it.

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

Your transaction was included in block 456363 by AntPool. Contact them and plead your case they might take pity on you and give you the fee back. Be nice as they are under no obligation to do so.

[xhomerx10]

Your transaction was included in block 456363 by AntPool. Contact them and plead your case they might take pity on you and give you the fee back. Be nice as they are under no obligation to do so.

 While perhaps no legally bound to returning the mistakenly attached fee,  I believe that Bitcoin miners have a moral obligation to return blatantly abnormal fees once apprised of the situation hence they are not technically "under no obligation" to return the fee.  Think of it as a goodwill gesture to the Bitcoin community which already has it's more than fair share of scammers.  Wrong is wrong.

[AliceWonderMiscreations]

I would like clients to warn about fees that are both abnormally small (meaning likely to take more than an hour to confirm) or abnormally large (meaning a typo, such as this one). I think some might, but I don't think the Qt client most people use does.

[batang_bitcoin]

Too bad for you pal, we can't help on it. And the only way to help with your case is already given, just contact them anyway that's the only way.

Your transaction was included in block 456363 by AntPool. Contact them and plead your case they might take pity on you and give you the fee back. Be nice as they are under no obligation to do so.

It's not all about pity, they should make their part on this type of unusual fee that has been made. Well let's hope that they will cooperate with Op and will return it out as soon as possible.

[AngryDwarf]

I would like clients to warn about fees that are both abnormally small (meaning likely to take more than an hour to confirm) or abnormally large (meaning a typo, such as this one). I think some might, but I don't think the Qt client most people use does.

QT has a maximum allowed fee.

-maxtxfee=<amt>
Maximum total fees (in BTC) to use in a single wallet transaction or raw transaction; setting this too low may abort large transactions (default: 0.10)

[Yakamoto]

Please help, please, I sent a transaction with a $3000 fee by mistake, I can't afford to lose this much I am saving for college

Please help anyone

https://blockchain.info/tx/4d45a14ee7320b97bafd550d60df1a1be524f3cfc8ca1ea6295279eeb7026aff

What can I do?

Best thing you can do is contact the miner pool that confirmed the block with your transaction within it, and if you get lucky they might refund your transaction and you'll get your money back.

Worst case they ignore your comment and you end up getting nothing back, having learned a $3000 lesson about checking things repeatedly.

Not much anyone else can do.

[jbreher]

I believe that Bitcoin miners have a moral obligation to return blatantly abnormal fees once apprised of the situation

A moral obligation to fix someone else's mistake. Hellz no.

Granted, it would be a nice gesture to return what in this case seems an obvious error. If I were the miner, I would like to think that I would return the overage. But 'moral obligation'? That's crazy ass special snowflake shit.

Life is dangerous. Live accordingly. Don't expect others to clean up your messes for you.

[eddie13]

When you ask maybe only ask for like 90% back or something like that, offer for them to keep a little chunk for their time and trouble..

[vennali]

Please help, please, I sent a transaction with a $3000 fee by mistake, I can't afford to lose this much I am saving for college

Please help anyone

https://blockchain.info/tx/4d45a14ee7320b97bafd550d60df1a1be524f3cfc8ca1ea6295279eeb7026aff

What can I do?

Hard luck mate. How did this happen? There's nothing much you can do now other than contacting the miner pool(Ant pool). Give your best but be ready to face the worst. I'd say mostly its a lose situation here but you never know. Try your best. Good Luck.

[KennyR]

That's insane, I don't think you've got the probabilities of getting it back. Only hope is contacting the miners as suggested by the users. It's our responsibility to have a cross check before making a transaction to avoid such errors.

[AngryDwarf]

Software really should give a warning for what are obviously excessive fees.

I wish the best to the OP and hope he can get some of his fee refunded by nicely asking AntPool.

[Renji Abarai]

  Ohh..... That's too much for a transaction fee. AFAIK once it is processed, there is nothing you can do. But as the other forumer here suggests contact the Antpool who process it, maybe they do something.

[HI-TEC99]

You could try sending a pm to BITMAIN who started antpool's thread here, or asking what to do in the antpool thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.0

You might also consider starting a thread about it in antpool's forum.

https://enforum.bitmain.com/

If you registered on antpool's site you could send it a ticket here.

http://support.bitmain.com/

What wallet were you using? The whole community should avoid that wallet like the plague.

Most wallets would at least warn you before paying a sky high fee, the same as they would warn you about a low fee.

[xhomerx10]

I believe that Bitcoin miners have a moral obligation to return blatantly abnormal fees once apprised of the situation

A moral obligation to fix someone else's mistake. Hellz no.

Granted, it would be a nice gesture to return what in this case seems an obvious error. If I were the miner, I would like to think that I would return the overage. But 'moral obligation'? That's crazy ass special snowflake shit.

Life is dangerous. Live accordingly. Don't expect others to clean up your messes for you.

 There's nothing crazy about moral obligation.  Life is not dangerous or there wouldn't be 7 billion humans on the planet - you're simply creating a false narrative. There's nothing dangerous about this particular predicament nor should it be considered a mess, an honest mistake has been made that merely requires honest action on the part of the miner (in this case Antminer) to remedy.  Hellz yeah!

[jbreher]

I believe that Bitcoin miners have a moral obligation to return blatantly abnormal fees once apprised of the situation

A moral obligation to fix someone else's mistake. Hellz no.

Granted, it would be a nice gesture to return what in this case seems an obvious error. If I were the miner, I would like to think that I would return the overage. But 'moral obligation'? That's crazy ass special snowflake shit.

Life is dangerous. Live accordingly. Don't expect others to clean up your messes for you.

 There's nothing crazy about moral obligation.  Life is not dangerous or there wouldn't be 7 billion humans on the planet - you're simply creating a false narrative. There's nothing dangerous about this particular predicament nor should it be considered a mess, an honest mistake has been made that merely requires honest action on the part of the miner (in this case Antminer) to remedy.  Hellz yeah!

Well, no. Miners are paid in fee to mine transactions into blocks. Miner was offered a large consideration to mine that transaction into a block RFN. Value was delivered for the consideration offered. The idea that OP did not intend to provide the consideration that s/he advertised is irrelevant from a contractual standpoint. Terms were offered, miner accepted terms, delivered miner's end.

Look, I feel for OP. And as mentioned, I'd like to think that I'd be big enough to return OP's fee. But that would merely be taking pity upon someone for making a mistake.

There is no moral obligation here.