Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack

Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack by rawtxapp on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:33PM (#27178270)

I think the way to look at is that, smart contracts are not behind the contracts/agreements, smart contracts are the contracts/agreements. Once you realize that, if a smart contract executed successfully then the operation was legitimate.

Of course, ethereum forked when a big hack happened, but it won't be forking for every hack, otherwise it's not really a reliable blockchain.

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Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack by crooked-v on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:27PM (#27179508)

A smart contract can't actually be the contract (and may end up not even vaguely correspond to the resulting situation in the real world) because the legal system alters or voids contracts all the time. A judge who decides that your smart contract has an unconscionable clause isn't going to care about what you say about immutable code - he's going to tell you to fix it in the real world or else.

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Re:Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack by withinboredom on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:26PM (#27185879)

Judging from the amount of contract disputes in the court system, I would expect it to be forked pretty regularly

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