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February 03, 2014, 01:03:47 AM |
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https://i.imgur.com/5gw5AA7. Um... a ~£200 transaction fee?? That's... not normal 1PfmdNxnZM33DxQGvmRmp7955Hf3yYz3cK is me, 1NmPv8sFKkhMJsNYeb5cGkzVpY86B9g58u one of my change addresses, and 1G3XsAAsHcfreztMixxLUe4V8WKNPt5V3c is my deposit address on an exchange. I just bought .7 BTC tonight, sent .3 to an exchange, and when all the confirmations had gone through my balance was 0.1 BTC. This is all I can tell you  I am phenomenally confused right now, and pretty stressed at what I am seeing. What the hell do I do, if anything??!
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btcven
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February 03, 2014, 02:38:57 AM |
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cccccc (OP)
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February 03, 2014, 03:26:55 AM |
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Because I was waiting on the purchase so I could trade, and wasn't busy doing anything else when my bought BTC popped up.
Nothing sinister or underhand, I was just buying BTC in order to trade some on an exchange (less than half) and keep the rest in the wallet.
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February 03, 2014, 04:19:05 AM |
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In your preferences, what is the value of the fee per kilobyte that is set?
In order to do your transaction, were you using the classic GUI (it has a field that displays the fee) or the lite mode, or another UI?
since the fee you paid is equal to the amount you sent, is there a possibility that you mistakenly typed the amount in the fee field?
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February 03, 2014, 04:40:06 AM |
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Hi, thanks for replying. My preferences show a fee of 0.0002 and I am using the standard Electrum GUI.
I am 100% sure that I didn't change the fee box. But looking at the evidence I am also 100% doubting this. It's really, genuinely messing with my head, which right now is far worse than the potentially lost money.
I joked over on reddit that if my brain "blinked" so much that I could just toss £200 away, then I probably need a CT scan. Not even sure if I'm joking any more?! - it's 4:30 in the morning and I am just going over and over this, and I honestly have no clue.
I couldn't have put 0.3 in there, could I? I wouldn't have any reason to type it more than once. I wouldn't choose to edit the Tx fee. I wasn't copying and pasting. I wasn't using TAB to move between fields...
Sleep would be nice.
Thanks again for replying, I'll be sure to update this thread if... well, if anything starts to make sense, that would be a good first step!
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btcven
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February 03, 2014, 10:26:18 AM |
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A confirmation message when sending fee above >0.01 BTC might be needed. This might not be the only case in the future.
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Sonny
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February 03, 2014, 10:26:49 AM |
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It seems to me that you have accidentally put 0.3 on the fee field... BTW, would it be difficulty to add a warning for extremely high fee? Say, warn the user when the per KB fee is 0.001+ (10x min fee), and the user can choose to revise the fee setting or still create that transaction. Edit: btcven beats me for that fee warning suggestion.  |
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February 03, 2014, 10:44:08 AM |
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It seems to me that you have accidentally put 0.3 on the fee field... BTW, would it be difficulty to add a warning for extremely high fee? Say, warn the user when the per KB fee is 0.001+ (10x min fee), and the user can choose to revise the fee setting or still create that transaction. Edit: btcven beats me for that fee warning suggestion. Sounds good. The satoshi client just implemented this feature in their latest RC by the way. Can't believe it took 4 years to add this! |
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February 03, 2014, 11:49:13 AM |
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A confirmation message when sending fee above >0.01 BTC might be needed. This might not be the only case in the future.
FYI, Electrum does this since version 1.9.6. The default GUI asks for a confirmation when the transaction fee is above 1mBTC. the relevant commit is here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/commit/89d42292075d867eadedd1b19993299c5b0eb596 |
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February 03, 2014, 11:32:33 PM |
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Oh I've read that, but totally forgot about it. So how could this happen to him. cccccc, you need to sleep dude. |
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February 04, 2014, 03:48:35 AM |
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Thanks for all your comments. I was still on 1.9, now I am on 1.9.7 and just a little bit grumpy  Worse things happen. Having previously entered a trade offer into a "buy" box rather than a "sell" box, effectively undoing a week of many small gains, I made a vow to read everything twice before clicking "OK". Now I read them 3 times. |
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