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Max meant to list this valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for 75 ether, or $300,000, but listed it for .75 ether instead.
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The is one of the most prestigious NFT collections in the world. A collection of 10,000 NFTs, each depicting an ape with different traits and visual attributes, Jimmy Fallon, Steph Curry and Post Malone are among their star-studded owners. Right now the price of entry is 52 ether, or $210,000.
Which is why it’s so painful to see that someone accidentally sold their Bored Ape NFT for $3,066.
Unusual trades are often a sign of funny business, as in the case of the person who spent $530 million to buy an NFT . In Saturday’s case, the cause was a simple, devastating “fat-finger error.” That’s when people make a trade online for the wrong thing, or for the wrong amount. Here the owner, real name Max or username maxnaut, meant to list his Bored Ape for 75 ether, or around $300,000. Instead he accidentally listed it for 0.75. One hundredth the intended price.
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It was bought instantaneously. The to speed up the transaction, ensuring no one could snap it up before them. The Bored Ape was then . The transaction appears to have been done by a bot, which can be coded to immediately buy NFTs listed below a certain price on behalf of their owners in order to take advantage of these exact situations.
“How’d it happen? A lapse of concentration I guess,” Max told me. “I list a lot of items every day and just wasn’t paying attention properly. I instantly saw the error as my finger clicked the mouse but a bot sent a transaction with over 8 eth [$34,000] of gas fees so it was instantly sniped before I could click cancel, and just like that, $250k was gone.”
“And here within the beauty of the Blockchain you can see that it is both honest and unforgiving,” he added.
Sometimes you fuck up, make a bad buy, out of gas fail, send Eth to the wrong wallet or fat finger a listing 👀It’s going to happen. But, letting it occupy your mind for even one second after you can no longer affect the outcome is purely hurting yourself twice ❤️
— maxnaut.eth (@maxnaut)
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Fat finger trades happen sporadically in traditional finance — like in 2014 — but most financial institutions will stop those transactions if alerted quickly enough. Since and NFTs are designed to be decentralized, you essentially have to rely on the goodwill of the buyer to reverse the transaction.
Fat finger errors in cryptocurrency trades have made many a headline over the past few years. Back in 2019, عملة Axie Infinity the company behind Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar, nearly doubled its own coin supply when it In March, BlockFi meant to send 700 Gemini Dollars to a set of customers, worth roughly $1 each, but . Last month a company erroneously on a $100,000 transaction.
Similar incidents are increasingly being seen in NFTs, now that many collections have accumulated in market value over the past year. Last month someone tried selling a CryptoPunk NFT for $19 million, but . Back in August, someone fat finger listed their Bored Ape for $26,000, an error that someone else immediately capitalized on. The original owner offered $50,000 to the buyer to return the Bored Ape — but instead the opportunistic buyer sold it for the then-market price of $150,000.
“The industry is so new, bad things are going to happen whether it’s your fault or the tech,” Max said. “Once you no longer have control of the outcome, forget and move on.”
The Bored Ape Yacht Club launched back in April, with 10,000 NFTs being sold for 0.08 ether each — about $190 at the time. While NFTs are often associated with individual digital art pieces, collections like the Bored Ape Yacht Club, which by using them as profile pictures on social media, are becoming increasingly prevalent. The Bored Ape Yacht Club has since become the second biggest NFT collection in the world, second only to , which launched in 2017 and is considered the “original” NFT collection.
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