OKX cleaned up the wallet and burned 254 BTC in handling fees! Suspected bug in the collection program

This site (120btC.coM): Mononaut, the founder of the Bitcoin memory pool and blockchain browser mempool, tweeted this morning (8), OKX conducted a tweet on Friday night A major wallet aggregation operation occurred, but its own transaction bidding occurred, causing handling fees to skyrocket out of control.

According to the community screenshot below, there was an abnormal situation where 5 Bitcoins were burned for one block fee.

OKX collection accidentally burned more than 254 BTC handling fees

The follow-up mononaut summarizes all confirmed and pending OKX of OKX starting from block 846867 Data related to wallet collection operations show that the total number of transactions during this period was as high as 254.28 BTC, which is currently worth approximately US$17.64 million.

• A total of 2385 transactions were generated

• A total of 357092 inputs

• The average rate is as high as 246.65 s/vb

• The total handling fee reached 254.28 BTC (worth approximately US$17.6 million)

Fund collection is also called fund cleaning, which refers to The operation of transferring the funds in the wallets of all sub-addresses in the account (essentially a transfer transaction) to the designated account. This function is beneficial to fund management and operation, and also improves work efficiency. It has become an essential basic function for centralized platforms such as wallets, exchanges, and asset management platforms.

OKX confirmed: Such exaggerated data in the "test" aggregation program

caused the community to speculate that this may be a problem with OKX's aggregation script. In this regard, OKX officials also came forward yesterday evening to confirm that the technical team was "testing an aggregation process."

"Thanks for the reminder, the team is testing an aggregation program, which has been stopped."

In response to OKX's response, mononaut joked: "I really wish I had such a testing budget." Below There are also users who are worried about asking, "I threw hundreds of pies at once, is it still safe?", or are worried about the job of the OKX technical team, "OKX's technology will be hacked, it is estimated that... 200 BTC..."

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