Home Hacking Polymarket Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside (for one, it facilitates assassination ), one of the issues with making this work is the verification of these real-world events. Polymarket gamblers have threatened a journalist because his story was being used to verify an event. And now, gamblers are taking hair dryers to weather sensors to rig weather bets. There’s also insider trading : a lot of it . Tags: assassinations , cheating , gambling , hacking , insiders Posted on May 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM • 0 Comments Subscribe to comments on this entry Leave a comment Cancel reply Blog moderation policy Login Name Email URL: Remember personal info? Fill in the blank: the name of this blog is Schneier on ___________ (required): Comments: Allowed HTML <a href="URL"> • <em> <cite> <i> • <strong> <b> • <sub> <sup> • <ul> <ol> <li> • <blockquote> <pre> Markdown Extra syntax via https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/ Δ ← A Ransomware Negotiator Was Working for a Ransomware Gang Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Powered by WordPress Hosted by Pressable