A trader known as ProudBitcoiner accidentally paid $9,500 in Ethereum transaction fees.$120.
On Reddit, user ProudBitcoiner stated:
He wrote that he mistakenly entered the amount of 200,000 in the "Gas Price" field instead of the "Limit" field"Usually the Limitgaza field is filled automatically depending on thetransactions, but this time it was empty.paid 600,000% more than required.
We're sorry for your loss.By the way, MetaMask definitely should not allow this.a certain amount.
According to users' general opinion, Metamask should have a warning that starts if the user potentially made a mistake in entering the amount.
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