$94,620.00
0.96%$1,805.62
1.61%$2.22
1.40%$603.52
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2.20%$0.728349
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1.66%$94,625.00
1.06%$3.56
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4.11%$0.00001462
3.91%$9.05
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1.15%$3.25
0.15%$2,165.26
1.50%$0.999881
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2.32%$87.31
3.12%$4.31
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0.06%$1,805.76
1.69%$0.99947
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4.36%$1.025
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21.83%$348.89
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0.90%$170.84
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0.68%$0.752262
1.60%$0.02764943
1.79%$4.52
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1.52%$0.369676
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12.88%$94,532.00
1.25%$2.91
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15.82%$0.497418
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1.24%$1,511.48
0.35%$158.76
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0.75%$1.10
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1.70%$0.706183
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2.14%$0.01670907
0.33%$1,879.31
1.55%$10.40
1.12%$1.007
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3.82%$1.001
0.02%$0.701699
3.25%$603.49
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23.35%$2,037.82
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6.21%$3,312.60
0.02%$93,799.00
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0.77%$0.760932
1.89%$13.33
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33.52%$1,921.69
1.59%$0.00000071
3.94%$0.02105562
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1.07%$0.682395
17.31%$2.11
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25.29%$0.997563
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0.57%$95,252.00
1.46%$0.999394
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1.96%$0.252917
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3.53%$1.88
1.36%$0.165356
1.02%$0.574951
2.20%$1.10
0.72%$3.62
5.21%$0.623732
9.78%$1,886.97
1.59%$0.00905442
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Ethereum users lost just over 174 ETH (worth roughly $490,000 at current prices) in failed transactions as they were trying to mint a “COVIDPunks,” a new collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) which simply throws a medical mask on top of CryptoPunks avatar.
🥳WE ARE LIVE!🥳
Mint now at https://t.co/lgEla2OqtR pic.twitter.com/XkMopZTjHy
— COVIDPunks🦠 (@COVIDPunksNFT) August 5, 2021
Like the original, “medically masked” punks are a set of 10,000 randomly generated low-resolution avatars in the form of NFTs. Each of these tokens is cryptographically unique and serves as a digital certificate of authenticity and ownership.
Thanks to these inherent qualities, the original CryptoPunks became highly popular among collectors—so much so that the cheapest CryptoPunk you can buy today will cost over $100,000 in Ethereum.
Naturally, the fanfare has attracted copycats.
You lose a potion of gas only not the mint amount
— HT.3♦ (@htdot3) August 5, 2021
The minting of COVIDPunks began on Thursday at 5 pm UTC, and less than an hour later all 10,000 NFTs were sold out. Notably, the project’s launch also coincided with Ethereum’s latest upgrade dubbed London. Among other things, it has introduced a mechanism for burning ETH tokens.
Thanks to this, COVIDPunks became the biggest “ETH burner” in an instant, responsible for the destruction of 525 ETH (about $1.5 million) while the minting was active, according to Ethereum burn tracker Ultrasound.money.
The NFT drop also pushed the burn rate up to 14 ETH ($40,000) per minute as the emission rate of Ethereum plummeted to -4.7 ETH per minute.
This means that for an hour or so, the total supply of ETH was actually shrinking as more tokens were burned than produced.
At the same time, as users flocked to mint COVIDPunks, the Ethereum network got clogged and transaction fees skyrocketed from around 70 Gwei ($5.8) to over 400 Gwei ($33).
— Alex Svanevik ✨ (@ASvanevik) August 5, 2021
Unsurprisingly, because of such heavy congestion, many transactions that were sent to mint COVIDPunks have failed—and there are no gas refunds on Ethereum.
According to a special tool on crypto metrics platform Dune Analytics designed to calculate losses due to failed transactions, would-be COVIDPunk buyers have lost 174.39 ETH—or $489,868—in total on unsuccessful transfers.
A similar fate has recently befallen another NFT project—the sale of Stoner Cats mini-series resulted in users losing $790,000 in failed Ethereum transactions last week.
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