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Agree with 1/, disagree with 2 and i have a different point of view on th 3rd point.

A lawyer can review a contract, miss a loophole/backdoor, and then argue to the court that the backdoor was placed there in bad faith, recoup his client losses. You can't do that with code. If you load a backdored code, you can't argue "this is unfair" to a court of justice.

On the 3rd point, i think "good" crypto (and by that i mean non-obvious shitcoins) tend to centralize a lot.



> You can't do that with code. If you load a backdored code, you can't argue "this is unfair" to a court of justice.

Why not? Assuming the miner and you are in the same jurisdiction, what prevents you from suing them? Seems relatively straightforward.


Because of limited responsability mainly. Did anyone attack microsoft for the catastrophic 0day ~2 years ago?




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