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How do you run out of gas? Eth failed transaction question
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Tictocgroup
on 23/02/2018, 18:14:28 UTC
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That transaction had a very high gas price specified (0.000025 Ether, 25,000 GWei), while currently transactions are getting confirmed for much lower (0.000000002 Ether, 2 GWei). And the transaction only specified a max of 25,000 gas units, which is pretty low. So, your transaction burned up the maximum amount (25,000 * 0.000025 = 0.625 Ether), and still failed, unfortunately.

I saw this on stacks exchange.

It scares me because his TX fees are up 0,65 eth!

How did this happen? https://etherscan.io/tx/0xda8c0b80d8e240a83c8f6b067c4656babeb13e8e0ece4fd4292aa06252f1285c


Can it happen to me?  If a TX doesn't confirm in hours and you don't cancel it, will it just continue to eat up eth as the days go by? Very scary...