TechFlow reports that ANTPOOL, a mining pool operated by Bitmain, has issued a notice stating that a user submitted 83 BTC as a transaction fee on November 23. After including the transaction, ANTPOOL temporarily froze the funds due to its risk control system, and is now requiring the user to contact them before December 10, 2023, 00:00 (UTC+8), and verify their identity by following the steps below. Once verification is successfully completed, ANTPOOL will refund the fee.
The verification steps are as follows:
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Prepare a signing tool: Electrum or Bitcoin Core;
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Use the above signing tool to sign the message "AntPool" with the private key of the address "bc1qn3d7vyks0k3fx38xkxazpep8830ttmydwekrnl", and send the resulting signature to the email address: [email protected]
