This was probably the worst way to lose $150,000 ever In July 2022, an NFT whale called Franklin, the seventh largest Bored Ape holder at the time, registered an Ethereum Name Service domain called "stop-doing-fake-bids-its-honestly-lame-my-guy.eth" It was meant to be a meta joke about people creating useless ENS names just to bait a Twitter bot into tweeting fake high bids on them To pull the joke off, he placed a 100 ETH bid on his own domain from a second wallet, which was worth around $150,000 at the time and the bot ended up tweeting it Then a guy called 8892 placed a real bid of 1.89 ETH (~$2,800) on the domain Franklin accepted, went to Twitter to post "the most surprising 1.891 ETH I have ever made" and then completely forgot one detail His own 100 ETH bid was still active Fifteen minutes later, 8892 accepted that 100 ETH offer, instantly selling the domain back to Franklin for $150,000 and walking away with a clean 97.5 ETH profit Franklin tried sending the 1.89 ETH back as a goodwill gesture hoping the buyer would reverse it 8892 just tweeted "I ripped this guy off for 100 ETH and he just sent me another 1.9?" Franklin posted "Oh no, I lost 100 ETH. This will be the joke and bag fumble of the century. I deserve all of the jokes and criticism." A guy who owned 57 Bored Apes worth millions got rinsed because he couldn't remember to cancel his own joke