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Trader who lost $26M to copy-paste error says it’s been ‘max pain’

A trader who lost $25 million after accidentally copying and pasting the wrong transfer address is offering a $2.5 million reward to white hackers in the hopes of getting their money back. 

A trader who recently revealed they had lost $25 million back in June after copying in the wrong deposit address says the experience has been “max pain.”

Pseudonymous crypto investor qklpjeth told Cointelegraph that they accidentally transferred 7,912 Renzo restaked ETH (ezETH) — worth $26.4 million at current prices — to a safe contract address on June 19.

Unfortunately, they said they entered the incorrect address and sent the funds to a safe module instead of his own safe, meaning that the tokens were “locked and unable to be withdrawn.”

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Crypto user fat fingers $90K fee for a $2K ETH transfer

An anonymous user appears to have accidentally spent 34 ETH to transfer a little more than $2,200 in ETH.

An unknown crypto user appears to have accidentally spent $90,000 in gas fees in what should’ve been a simple transfer of $2,200 in Ether.

The user spent 34.26 Ether (ETH) in gas fees (worth $89,200 at current prices) to transfer 0.87 ETH, worth just $2,262, according to Etherscan data cited in an Aug. 11 X post by pseudonymous user DeFiac.

At the time of publication, gas fees on the Ethereum network are hovering at yearly lows of between 2 and 4 gwei, meaning that a transfer of ETH should only cost a maximum of $5. In percentage terms, the user overpaid by more than 1,783,900%.

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