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Ethereum developer Yoichi Hirai has resigned as one of the platform's code editors, citing concerns that a contentious proposal may be in violation of penal law.
Named EIP 867, the proposal defines a method to better facilitate the return of lost funds on the platform.
Speaking on GitHub, the developer wrote:
"Some EIP editors look nonchalant about legal consequences of this draft, but I have warned them, and I have no capacities to do anything more than warn them... I resign from the post of an EIP editor."
Writing his comments yesterday, Hirai said that the EIP may be in violation of a Japanese law named the "Unauthorized Creation of Electromagnetic Records," stating "I have a doubt that, if the proposal is followed in practice, the process might constitute a crime."
The law in question deals with cases of computer-based fraud, in particular, the unlawful creation of data "with the intent to bring about the improper administration of the matters of another person," a legal document states.
Software engineer Afri Schoedon asked Hirai to step down as an EIP editor via a tweet:
Hirai tweeted his resignation, driven by an inclination towards his legal responsibility:
Read more:
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-developer-resigns-as-code-editor-citing-legal-concerns/
More on the topic was discussed on Github: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/867#issuecomment-365541405
As well as Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7xsjps/who_can_recover_stuck_funds_on_ethereum_yoichi/
Without regrets, Hirar took an effective medium (pun intended, lol..) to further express his true concerns, after starting up a conversation from his twitter handle with a "question":
https://medium.com/@pirapira/who-can-recover-stuck-funds-on-ethereum-345ba7566c9c
If you missed the anticipation of it all, catch up here: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-devs-call-public-debate-fund-recovery/
The convo that acted partly as a catalyst to the crusade: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-users-losing-money-devs-dont-quite-know/
Final Thoughts…
What do we make of this?
Should Blockchain be modifiable or not?
In the situation of an error or a hack that leads to users losing funds, what should be the right/accepted consensus?
I’m Just A Little Curious…
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