I don't really understand. You can create wallets at will. What would be the value of one that someone else happened to create?

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xrd 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it has a small transaction history it obscure the owners intentions. An address created right before a wager is obviously for one purpose.

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0x3f 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Right but if you have the forethought to go buy such a wallet, you could just make one yourself in advance and create a transaction history.

Although I would argue that even this doesn't have much value. It's not a big problem that people know "there exists an insider at OpenAI". There are plenty of employees there that shield you from being discovered.

In fact it would be so difficult to find this person among them, assuming the most basic opsec, that I'm highly skeptical they actually fired anyone. I would sooner assume this is just an announcement designed to discourage the behavior, since no specifics are provided.

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xrd 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You are giving a lot of credit to this criminal. I really doubt they thought about this long in advance of the crime. Are you suggesting they got hired at openai so they could make calculated wagers at Kalshi? This was more likely a crime made impulsively.

	▲	0x3f 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		First of all I'm not sure what they did is criminal. And it would have been Polymarket. Nonetheless, you can just be a pre-existing OpenAI employee. As long as you take basic precautions, they (as in, OpenAI), are not going to be able to find out it was you.

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TZubiri 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aged accounts, shell companies, it's a market

	▲	0x3f 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not in this context it's not. Companies can't create Polymarket accounts. Polymarket accounts are just email addresses or alternatively crypto wallets. And there's no purpose I can imagine to aging them.