As you know Bitcoin problems with scalling made fees go high as crazy.

Currently average fee to send BTC and get them reasonably fast delivered is at least 0.0009944 BTC but more like 0.001 which is 3 USD.

But to send really fast you need to spend even 10USD or more.

Current Stuck Transactions

Bitcoin block has 12.5 coins + fees of transactions inside of it. And those money are taken by block finder - usually a pool (almost nobody solo mines BTC anymore).

Today somebody sent a transaction of almost 100 BTC with.. 80 BTC fee!

The pool that found it is BTC.com and they already offered to give back this money if sender contacts them.
https://btc.com/0000000000000000015c6e1c0b35834cb075727f3bec7bbe96289805c25af144?page=1&asc=0&order_by=fee

Does it happen often?

Well yes it happends but most epic one ive seen was sending 0.001 BTC with 291BTC as fee.

Is this first time pools give back failed fees? NOT!

Pools get users due to credibility and they dont want to make money of mistakes of others. I remember at least 3 cases of pool giving money back to user who made too big fee but google didnt help much to find them as its not something thats shared left and right.
So if this happens to you, check the block and see the pool that mined it. Contact them. If its a big pool they will send you coins back.
Here is example info of last blocks:

So on the right you have the pool, if you do a fuckup of big size - contact them and there is a chance you will get money back.

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