Podcast Episode 417: Cybersecurity’s First Crash Report

Tatyana Bolton and I try to unpack a recent smart contract hack and the confused debate about whether “Code is Law” in web3. Answer: it is not, and never was, but that does not turn the hacking of a smart contract into a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/00GEuwZVClgqGG6MI6L28W?si=a2fd6608442b4dc4

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