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The Polymarket Hairdryer Hack: $34K from a Paris Weather Bet
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A bettor placed a wager on Paris temperature on Polymarket, then drove to the official weather measuring station and held a hairdryer up to the sensor. He made it artificially warm enough to win his bet and pocket $34,000. Prediction markets have a physics problem now.
A bettor manipulated a Polymarket weather market by heating the actual measuring station in Paris with a hairdryer, earning $34,000 in profit.
A soldier used classified knowledge of the Maduro raid to bet on Polymarket and make $400,000. He got arrested. Meanwhile, a Coinbase exec read the Polymarket keyword list aloud during an earnings call, ensuring all bets resolved in betters' favor. The platform is a legal grey zone.
