The Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that led to the resignation of an EIP editor over his personal legal concerns has been closed, but an identical proposal has been reopened on Github to relatively negative fanfare.

The original EIP proposal #867 was introduced by Musiconomi developer Dan Phifer as an option for how to more easily modify the Ethereum (ETH) Blockchain to redistribute address balances in the circumstance of lost funds.

EIP editor Yoichi Hirai had criticized the draft for what he saw as its violation of a Japanese law about the creation of electromagnetic records, as well as it being “at odds with Ethereum philosophy.”