Ethereum code editor Yoichi Hirai has resigned from his position following an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) potentially violate Japanese law.

Hirai both tweeted his resignation as posted on a more dramatic explanation of his reasons for resigning on Github:

this draft. I do not sleep well. My family accuses me of mental absence. I believe these are signs that my abilities are not ready for the task of the EIP editorship. (19459005)

Musiconomi developer Dan Phifer and two developers from start-up TapTrust introduced said proposal, which seeks a solution for a simpler way to amend the Ethereum blockchain (19459003)

A hack last June on the Ethereum parity customer caused Musiconomi to lose their raised by crowdfunding when parity froze their multi-sig wallet.

Hirai's reportedly a problem with the future of the future. "Unauthorized Creation of Electromagnetic Records." He writes on Github that he does not think that "anybody has the authority to make an irregular state change", because he does not believe that Ethereum users know about or authorize the EIP process, and Thus, it does not want the non-democratically elected EIP leaders to make these kind of rules for Ethereum users.

Hirai adds that he thinks the proposal is "at odds with the Ethereum philosophy", because Ethereum was made to avoid "single points of failure and the need of trust". In a later day, Hirai could not ignore his understanding of the Ethereum philosophy, but he could not ignore violations of the penal code.

Software engineer Afri Schoedon, who also works in community management at Ethereum and technical communication at Parity, has come out strongly in favor of Phifer's proposal. In response to Hirai's comments on the proposal on Github, Schoedon tweeted Hirai to step down as an EIP editor:

I do not want to be part of the #Ethereum community anymore if only one entity can singlehandedly block any proposal based on a Japanese law that bans the unauthorized creation of electromagnetic records. pic.twitter.com/phcXJJ0k42 – default (@ 5chdn) February 14, 2018

Hirai responded to the call for resignation, tweeting that it would not be possible code and thus break the law. However, Hirai did resign about 10 hours after that tweet.

Hirai's resignation over this proposal, even though he cites his personal legal responsibility as his impetus, heed the question of whether or not it should be changed in the case of hacks or errors that lead to a loss of user funds.

The recent hack of Nano from the BitGrail exchange caused a furor in the crypto world when it came out that Bitgrail's owner had allegedly asked for the altcoin's ledger to be

The largest example of a conflict over the nature of blockchain's ability to be the aftermath of the DAO hack, when stolen funds are moved to their rightful accounts to the split between Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). Ethereum Classic is the original Blockchain where the stolen money stayed with the hackers.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, had tweeted on Feb. In response to a buterin's tweet Greg Maxwell, train Bitcoin developer, posted on Reddit that Ethereum's operators are missing the hand of the hard fork debate: