On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Drak <drak@zikula.org> wrote:

> It just occurs to me this kind of sad story could be averted if wallets
> implemented a confirmation box if the fee amount seems crazy - for example,
> if it's >10x what the default fee should be, or if it's greater than x% of
> the sending amount. "the fee seems unusually high, are you really sure you
> want to pay X in fees?"
>

Bitcoin-qt (in master) always shows the fee and total amount that is going
to be paid in the confirmation dialog, so it is very hard to accidentally a
very high fee.

Wladimir