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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by pcthrowaway on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:31AM (#28156065)
Something that seems to be missed here, is that the bank has their physical servers owned by an institution, which you are exploiting. There is no physical server for Ethereum, the Smart Contracts don't exist anywhere.

You are likely also violating the terms of usage of the API and various other legally enforceable contracts by breaching the API.

If a smart contract included a terms of use however, it would be interesting to see whether this could be considered enforceable.

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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by wizzwizz4 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:19AM (#28156696)
> There is no physical server for Ethereum, the Smart Contracts don't exist anywhere.

There is no one physical server. I think this is misleading.

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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by pcthrowaway on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:30AM (#28157564)
It's a decentralized network. I mean it remains to be seen what jurisdictions consider smart contract exploits to be prosecutable, or whether they're even crimes.
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