Persona Journey Faces Backlash Over $500k in Wasted Gas Fees, Calls for Refunds

The cryptocurrency project Persona Journey has come under scrutiny for its inefficient handling of gas fees, leading to significant financial losses for its users. In the past 5 hours, nearly $500k in gas has been burned due to an inefficient heap tracking bids, which could have been avoided by using Solady's MinHeapLib. Users have reported discrepancies in gas fees for the same actions, with one instance of two bids set at 55 gwei resulting in charges of $36 and $115, respectively, and another user spending $240 in gas to bid. The project's refund logic has also been criticized for not accounting for gas spent, causing users to lose about $100 for each bid, and not considering the 0.29 ETH spent to mint. This situation has sparked a call for refunds and raised concerns about the impact of such practices on the ecosystem.