The Rise of Digital Vigilantes: How Crowd-Sourced Sleuthing Exposed a Polymarket Insider
An anonymous user on the decentralized prediction market Polymarket was identified this week by a collective of amateur online investigators, following a series of highly suspicious betting patterns surrounding the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. By cross-referencing public blockchain ledgers with social media activity, the group successfully flagged a specific account that appeared to…