THELOGICALINDIAN - An Ethereum user afield paid 9500 in transaction fees to accelerate aloof 120 The user articular by their Reddit moniker Proudbitcoiner says the transaction destroyed my activity and is now badly allurement miners to acknowledgment the money
According to a Nov. 4 post on Reddit, Proudbitcoiner said they accidentally typed in the amiss transaction fee, arch to a alteration of amounts about 80 times the admeasurement intended.
In total, the user, who was swapping tokens on Uniswap via the ethereum wallet Metamask, paid 23.5 ether (ETH), account almost $10,300 at the time of writing. ETH fees averaged $1.07 back Proudbitcoiner fabricated the transaction.
The funds were anon pocketed by mining basin Ethermine, a assemblage of the crypto miner Bitfly, which by some accompaniment created the block absolute a transaction with a fee of $2.6 million in June.
“Metamask didn’t abide the ‘gas limit’ acreage with the actual bulk in my antecedent transaction and that transaction failed, so I absitively to change it manually in the abutting transaction (this one), but instead of accounting 202400 in ‘gas limit’ ascribe field, I wrote it on the “Gas Price” ascribe field, so I paid 202400 Gwei for this transaction and destroyed my life,” Proudbitcoiner explained.
Transaction fees on the Ethereum blockchain are paid in “gas” and abstinent in “gwei,” a arrangement that can be ambagious to a lot of people. The gas makes it accessible to accomplish a transaction on the network, as continued as miners accede to the amount threshold.
Users can set banned on the best bulk of gas they are accommodating to absorb per transaction. Combined with the “gas price”, adumbrated in baby amounts of ether alleged “gwei”, the two set the fee per transaction on the Ethereum network.
And because miners accent affairs with the accomplished fees, Proudbitcoiner’s alteration was candy aural seconds. Now, they appeal the miner gives the money back. The user lamented:
Ethermine is not answerable to balance the money. When it encountered a agnate affair on a $2.6 actor transaction fee in June, the miner captivated the funds for four days, intending to pay the buyer back, but after distributed the block accolade to miners aural its pool.
Bitfly, Ethermine’s ancestor firm, said at the time that it will not investigate or acquittance any such errors in the future.
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