'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet

Re:'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarke... by palmotea on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:28PM (#47882300)

> How can I, an ordinary person, track it from Coinbase (KYC) to whatever wallet the prediction market is using to accept payment (or vice versa)." in order to link a real identity to a prediction market identity?

KYC data is certainly confidential.

> The government which has access to that is the very government making money doing this, so would not investigate itself.

I'm not obsessed with the Trump administration, so let's not make everything about them, OK? There are other governments in the world and there will be other administrations in the US in the future. I would like to talk about prediction markets in general.

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Re:'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarke... by ImPostingOnHN on Friday April 24, 2026 @06:05PM (#47896385)

Again, if your question was purely technical, the answer is "maybe", depending on the exchange flow. e.g. Maybe it was exchanged through Monero along the way or something, then the answer might be closer to "no".

If your question was asking about a practical, realistic possibility of this being done, then your weird fixation on the trump administration aside, the answer is "no".

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