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Using a client which has two boxes, one for fee and one for value transferred.

("Fat finger" errors like this are not unheard of in the read financial system, but that usually allows reversal)

That still means they intended to pay $100K in transaction fees, is that a normal sum?

Various claims on reddit using phrases like "set the gwei limit the same as the gas limit" and "new EIP 1559 transaction", which I can barely make sense of, but it sounds like they may have been in entirely different units?

Anyway, be your own bank, I'm sure you can figure this out. /s

It's a huge number but amounts to 0.4% (0.004). I have no idea how that compares to regular 24M international wire transfers, though.

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