Emin strongly believed there was no reason to let the ether thief get away with it. He didn’t buy the whole “code is law” argument. “Code is not law,” he said. “The law is the law. We are not going to tear down an entire financial system and build a new one only to be enslaved by the algorithms that we have come up with. Monetary systems have to serve the people and if they don’t serve the people, people will find a way to replace them.”
