France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting
Bloomberg Joe Wertz
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@aaronjmars
@aaronjmars
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holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought [i…
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@thisisksa
Karan Singh Arora
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This might be the wildest trade you'll hear all week 💀 Polymarket had a temp bet using one sensor near a Paris airport, market expected 18°C. One guy bet on 22°C, tracked down the exact sensor, showed up... and heated it with a hair dryer. 👀 Reading jumps to 22°C → he cashes [ima…
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@plusevanalytics
@plusevanalytics
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What actual crime did the Paris hair dryer guy commit? He didn't vandalize the sensor.
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@moneygurusumit
Sumit Kapoor
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Imagine explaining this in 2015 🤯 A trader allegedly used a hair dryer to manipulate a Paris airport weather sensor... to win bets on Polymarket. Made $35,000. Météo-France filed a criminal complaint. So weather can be manipulated on Polymarket... what else? Drop your thoughts [i…
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@wublockchain
Wu Blockchain
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Polymarket's Paris Weather Market Manipulated via Physical Hair Dryer Tampering to Net $34,000 According to Le Monde, An individual exploited an unguarded Météo France temperature sensor near the runway at Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport by using a portable heating [image]
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@aakashgupta
Aakash Gupta
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Every crypto whitepaper for the last decade has warned about the oracle problem. Someone finally demonstrated it for $34,000 using a hair dryer. Polymarket settles Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France weather station at Charles de Gaulle. Louvered enclosure on a pole,
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@anupkaphle
Anup Kaphle
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Absolutely wild.
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Alison Taylor
Alison Taylor
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How to make $34,000 with your hairdryer: — Step 1: get into Polymarket betting on the daily maximum temperature in Paris …
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Georg Zoeller
Georg Zoeller
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Example number 999 of why prediction markets need to be banned (like in Singapore). “Probing” usually amounts to nothing and protecting the “integrity of the prediction markets” here is a bad idea. …
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Joe Wertz
Joe Wertz
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Technicians at METEO FRANCE investigated and found suspected tampering with weather sensors at Charles de Gaulle International Airport …