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Courts can only make orders on parties of lawsuits. It can’t make broad orders against groups of people or non-entities.
by danielfoster 4y ago
Courts can only make orders on parties of lawsuits. It can’t make broad orders against groups of people or non-entities.
- quickthrower2 4y agoWhat if the party is Ethereum Foundation? And the order is to remove a smart contract by change the source code?
- jlokier 4y agoTwo things; 1. There are multiple implementations, written by different teams outside Ethereum Foundation, and the use of different implementations is encouraged. So Ethereum Foundation can't unilaterally change the code. Changes happen by rough consensus among different teams agreeing what to implement 2. Users who run consensus nodes are the final decision makers. If enough users decided not to adopt some team's code, or decided to run forked code, that would determine what rules the network uses. We are seeing 2 start to play out, as all the core implementation teams coordinated via the Ethereum Foundation are against applying the Tornado Cash sanctions filter in code, but a large minority of consensus nodes appear to be applying that filter by running forked code. This influences the statistics of how the network treats those transaction, though it is not currently enough to completely filter them. Those users are institutional so they are more organised and motivated to comply, but it shows the power is not entirely in the hands of upstream implementers.