Re:A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what ...
by Dolores12 on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:57AM
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If you link it to real world, any legal contract may have flaws. It all depends who got a better lawyer. Same analogy goes here.
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Re:A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what ...
by MrMoenty on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:25AM
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In the real world, contract law is written to not just take contracts at face value, but to also let judges take external factors into account. This includes customs, the parties intentions, whether they are acting in good faith, etc.
This is precisely because it was deemed impractical to write contracts that could be 'computationally' interpreted line by line. Seems like the etherium is slowly rediscovering this fact the hard way.