A Bitcoin transaction confirmed on August 12 in block 962,142 burned through a 1.60343885 BTC input after an automated Replace-by-Fee process repeatedly raised the fee until nothing was left for the recipient. Chain data showed miners received the entire input, worth roughly $102,778 at the time cited, while the lone output carried zero value. SpiderPool mined the block and collected the windfall, with the mistaken fee accounting for about 88% of the block's roughly 1.82 BTC in total fees. The incident illustrates how RBF, a legitimate feature used to speed up stuck transactions by increasing fees, can become costly when automation lacks safeguards such as manual approval, fee caps and test payments. With Bitcoin trading near $63,770, the case also underscores broader concerns around self-custody tooling and whether consumer wallets should allow a single transaction to spend an entire balance on fees without an added warning.