Any chance the one who ran this exploit can sue for the money they were due?
If the code IS the contract, then by the contract they are owed this money, no?
Or does this mean the code isn't the contract?
If the code IS the contract, then by the contract they are owed this money, no?
Or does this mean the code isn't the contract?
If the argument is that code is law, the fork was implemented in code, so it's law.
If their argument is that the white hat hacks shouldn't have happened then they lay themselves open to the argument that their initial hack shouldn't have happened.
And then there's how draconian unauthorised computer access laws tend to be...
They paid to participate in a code-based Nomic and were denied their prize because they won too quickly.
I am surprised the attacker didn't try to bribe the miners, though.