An Ethereum user with a mistake to forget costs 500 9,500

An Ethereum user submitted an error, sending a transaction fee of $ 500 and $ 9,500 $ 120. User, identified by his Reddit nickname ‘Pride Bitcoin’, says the transaction “ruined my life” and now is actively asking miners for a refund.

As of November 4, Mail on Reddit, Prudential said he accidentally typed the wrong transaction fee, which led to an 80x range change.

In total, the user who traded tokens on UniVer via Ethereum Wallet Metamask, 23.5 Ether (ETH), at the time of writing, is worth around 3 10,300. ETH The commission when making Proudbitcoiner is on average 7 1.07 Transactions.

The funds were immediately pocketed by the mining pool Ethermine, a division of the crypto miner Pitfill, which by chance created a block of transaction 6 at 2.6 million in June.

“Metamask did not expand the” Gas Limit “field with the correct amount in my previous transaction, so the transaction failed, so I decided to manually change it in the next transaction (this one), but instead of typing 200000 in” Gas Field input for range, I used the input “Gas price”. I wrote on the field, so I paid 200,000 quay for this transaction and ruined my life “, explained Proud Bitcoiner.

In the Ethereum blockchain the transaction fee is paid in “gas” and measured in “gwei”, which can be confusing for many people. Gas allows a transaction to take place on the network, until miners agree on a price range.

Users can set limits on the maximum amount of gas they can spend on a transaction. Together with the “gas price” indicated in the small quantity of ether called “quay”, the two set the price for a transaction on the ethereum network.

As miners preferred higher-fee transactions, the Prudential Bitcoin exchange was activated in seconds. Now they are begging the miner to return the money. The user complained:

I reached out to Ethermine on Twitter and contacted their CEO Peter Brocher on Twitter, who wrote this post here… I have no ideas. Ethermine, because they cut the block that was part of my transaction and it is in their good faith whether they want to return it or not.

Ethermin is not obligated to refund the money. Faced with a similar problem with a transaction fee of 6 2.6 million in June, the miner had the funds for four days and wanted to repay the owner, but then block reward distributed to the miners within his pool.

Said Pitfly, Ethermin’s parent company at the time It is not possible Investigate or report such errors in the future.

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