We live in the worst timeline.
, a "Bored Ape Yacht Club" fan named maxnaut meant to sell his ennui primate NFT for 75 ether — the Ethereum equivalent of about $300,000 — but accidentally listed it for 0.75 ether instead., the NFT was snatched up in seconds for what amounts to about $3,000 — one percent of its purported value.reports that it's likely the NFT was purchased by a bot designed to exploit this type of human error and buy up unusually-cheap tokens before anyone has a chance to fix them.
These kinds of "fat finger" sales and near-misses sometimes happen both inside and outside the cryptocurrency world, the report notes, and while they're usually able to be reversed in traditional banking or , crypto traders with meaty hands are beholden to the goodwill of their buyers — and the harsh mathematics of the blockchain.
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