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> A party intended to send a test transaction to that address with a tiny amount (there are many such payments). But they are using some awful tool that makes t
by jansan 3y ago
> A party intended to send a test transaction to that address with a tiny amount (there are many such payments). But they are using some awful tool that makes them manually manage the payment, change, and fees amounts and they manage to pay the amount that should have been change to the destination and send the amount they intended to pay as fees. (The transaction has no change)
Hehe, reminds me of the Fat finger trade when a stock trader wanted to buy 100,000 units, but there was a built in multiplier (factor 1000) in his trading tool that resulted in a 100,000,000 units order worth a whopping $10.8bn. But that error only created a damage of $300,000 for the bank.
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/the-fat-finger-points-to-trouble-for-traders-20070312 https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/the-fat-finger-points-to-t...