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Re: How do you run out of gas? Eth failed transaction question
by
lobo13hf
on 24/02/2018, 15:19:19 UTC

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...

this user might get mixed up with gas limit and gas price. Looking at transaction detail, he used 25000 gwei as gas price and 25000 gas limit. this why he ended up with actual cost 0,65 ETH. For reference to gas price, I usually use ethgasstation.
Indeed, That user doesn't even know how to put gas correctly and i think that he/she was putting 25k for gwei limit and that makes all of gas limit gets consumed by the network itself, as far as i know about the fact that the gas limit can't cover all of the gwei must be paid by the sender of the transaction. That results in the gas error and he/she was wasting a lot of money on gas.