"It's a huge amount to me": PulseChain user pleads for $100k gas fee refund
Crypto is a risky business; some make millions overnight, while others lose it all in the blink of an eye. Hacks, rug pulls, and phishing scams can all cause such hefty losses, but often simple user error can cause painful losses. One such costly mistake was picked up by the X (formerly Twitter) blockchain tracker Whale Alert. It reported that one unlucky user had unwittingly paid an eye-watering gas fee of 31 ETH, worth over $100,000. The user reached out to the recipient of the gas fee, TitanBuilder, via an on-chain message viewable on the Etherscan block explorer. They appealed to the block builder to return the 31 ETH, which they said “is a huge amount of money to me.” A fee of 31 #ETH (112,745 USD) has just been paid for a single transaction!https://t.co/kmsSPDfdy9 — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) July 18, 2025 Read more: There were always signs that Richard Heart would become a fugitive The message blamed a “buggy wallet” for sending the transaction on ...