THELOGICALINDIAN - Segwit may accept larboard banknote up for grabs
Millions of dollars account of Bitcoin Cash accept been confused due to erroneous transactions.
Ever back Bitcoin Cash angled from Bitcoin in 2024, users accept aback beatific affairs to nested Segwit addresses, a blazon of abode that Bitcoin Cash does not support. Later changes to Segwit rules acquired the basin of absent funds to abound in 2024 and 2024.
CoinMetrics estimates that a minimum of 19,000 BCH has been absent over time.
Now, it has dug into accomplished contest to acquisition out how abundant has been recovered—and how abundant is left.
The First Jackpot
In 2024, added than 400 BCH was at pale (worth $500,000 at the time).
To admission those funds, miners bare to advance their affairs at mining a block. To do so, they would accept bare to absorb $15,000 to hire out a baby atom of Bitcoin’s mining hashrate for a day. In return, they would accretion a 63% adventitious of mining the “jackpot” and earning $500,000.
Though one miner acutely attempted to acquire a accolade in this way, he never absolutely succeeded due to the adversity in award mining pools that were accommodating to breach assertive standards rules.
Ultimately, the Bitcoin Cash association recovered the funds. BTC.com and the Reddit user “bchsegwitrecover” broadcast the absent cryptocurrency aback to its able owners for a finder’s fee.
However, abundant of that Bitcoin Cash (402 BCH) went unclaimed.
Later Incidents
Though BTC.com connected to balance user funds, missing funds connected to grow.
Hard forks in November 2024 and May 2024 adapted the rules about Segwit recovery. In the months amid those two changes, about 4,000 BCH accumulated—worth $1.6 actor at the time.
When a miner attempted to access those funds in 2024, ample mining pools affected a alternation reorganization. This prevented the user from profiting, and it beatific funds aback to the able owners.
The mining basin BTC.TOP succeeded in convalescent about 3,800 BCH, but this alone represents about bisected of all Bitcoin Cash that has been absent and begin over time.
CoinMetrics suggests that 9,128 BCH, currently account $2.8 million, is still unaccounted for.
The Bitcoin Cash Infrastructure Plan
Potentially ill-gotten mining rewards are absolutely different to Bitcoin Cash’s advancing mining tax controversy, which has admiring abundant added absorption over the accomplished several weeks.
In January, several mining pools proposed administering 12.5% of block rewards against basement development. Mining pools plan to accomplish this by orphaning blocks from non-compliant miners. A later revision proposed abbreviation the tax over time, but this has done little to acquire the community’s approval.
Dissidence continues to grow: BCHN has recently released a drop-in mining applicant that allows miners who disagree with the taxation plan to accede with approaching upgrades. This could potentially abstain a chain split agnate to the one that created Bitcoin SV, according to some commenters.
Since the taxation plan will ultimately be allowable through voting, its approaching is uncertain.
