OpenSea collector fat fingers a 100 ETH bid for a free NFT
Some pundits have argued the trader mistakenly put up a bid for 100 ETH which was quickly snapped up, while others believe the sale was a wash trade. A nonfungible token (NFT) trader has seemingly fat-fingered a trade for a free NFT, buying it for 100 Ether (ETH), currently valued at $191,239, representing a 250,000% increase on the floor price of 0.04 ETH. The token was part of NFT marketplace OpenSea’s Gemesis NFT collection — free NFTs intended to commemorate the launch of OpenSea Pro on April 4. OpenSea Pro is a Marketplace aggregator tailored to professional users by providing them with what OpenSea calls “a vastly improved” suite of Features such as live cross- Marketplace data and advanced orders. A record of the transaction on an Ethereum blockchain explorer. Source: Etherscan While some have argued the sale was wash trading, Twitter user “0xSun” believed the sale — which occurred on the NFT marketplace Blur — happened because the trader wanted to bid $100 as an amount, but a...