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Fat Finger
Fat Finger or fat fingering a transaction refers to inadvertently using the wrong transaction details when buying, selling, or transferring cryptocurrency. Examples of fat fingering come in many shapes and forms, including …
Example
“A trader accidentally typed a sell order for 1,000 BTC instead of 100 BTC — a fat finger error that briefly crashed the price on the exchange before it was corrected.”