A rock NFT valued at 444 ether (ETH), or $1.2 million, sold for 444 Wei ($0.0012) to a bot as the seller, DinoDealer, confused WEI and ETH. In a tweet, the seller said, “in one click my entire net worth of ~$1 million dollars, gone.”
This was pure user error. According to a tweet by the seller, the unintentional bargain was snapped up by a bot designed to time auction bids to the last second. (BTW, there are dozens of good bot sniping tools available online for OpenSea, and hundreds of good ones for eBay, Reverb, and other auction sites).
What are the NFTeachable moments? In no particular order: Decimal points matter. Labels matter. The fine print matters. Not your keys, not your coins (OpenSea had custody of the keys to this NFT). And… if you make a mistake, there’s no one to go see. Blockchain transactions are immutable and irreversible.
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