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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by baobabKoodaa on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:00AM (#28155129)
This is a disingenuous argument not written in good faith. You know very well that the contract writers did not intend for this to happen, and yet you are pretending otherwise just to make a provocative argument.
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by thewarrior on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:09AM (#28155200)
Who decides what was intended in a decentralized system where code is law ?
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by baq on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:05AM (#28155745)
side question: what does decentralized have to do with the issue?
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by 8note on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:22PM (#28159667)
No common jurisdiction to go to an actual court to get it sorted
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by baq on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:44AM (#28167104)
i mean, if code is law, a centralized system will have the exact same issue.
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by spywaregorilla on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:28AM (#28155369)
If you go bowling, and remove the gutter rails, you have to accept that you can now throw a gutter ball.
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by baobabKoodaa on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:37PM (#28159166)
Yes, but if you try to aim for the bowling pins, and you miss, don't make a disingenuous claim that you intended to miss in the first place.
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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by bart_spoon on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:18AM (#28157416)
I don't think its disingenuous. The entire purpose of a contract is because neither party can trust the other to go along with what each other "intends" and therefore has to be written out explicitly in a legally binding document.

I think its an important point to be made.

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