I think this case was pretty obviously theft and it’s like saying that if you can put in the credit card numbers correctly then you can spend the money. It is o

I think this case was pretty obviously theft and it’s like saying that if you can put in the credit card numbers correctly then you can spend the money. It is obviously theft to trick someone else into giving you their money or stealing their numbers. I’m more curious about cases where some smart contract gives away a load of money because of some bug. There are legal cases where a contract says something stupid and courts uphold the contract and there are legal cases where a contract says something stupid and the courts instead go for the thing the contract meant to say. A funny example is that lawyers don’t like to write an equation into a contract and sometimes someone will tell them the equation that everyone agrees on for calculating interest, and they will convert it to words in the contract and the conversion will be incorrect leading to e.g. applying interest of “inflation since start of contract” cumulatively each year (leading to superexponential growth).