> There’s also little legal protection for crowdsale supporters, if any. Last June, one of the largest crowdfunding projects in blockchain history called the DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) was hacked. The perpetrator managed to extract about US$50 million in ether, according to currency exchanges at the time, before core developers of Ethereum stepped in. In the aftermath of the DAO, there was no legal recourse, only a technical reset of Ethereum’s code.

Depending on their opinion on the subject of "the code the law", some would consider those responsible for the resetting of ETH (to undo the DAO losses) as the perpetrators.