It makes you think that if you were able to surreptitiously add malicious side channel software into a popular npm package that you wouldn't just need to hunt for crypto wallets with balances.

You could also probably find a market for crypto wallets with small balances or zero balances. The history and date of creation would be the value to some.

This openai employee should have gone on the dark web to buy older addresses to cloak their activity.

It's sad to say that almost all crypto use cases point to fraud. I'm excited about crypto and there is some fascinating research around anonymous transactions (like zcash). But, that real utility is always overshadowed by the actions of charlatans or worse.

https://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-trading-violation-enforceme...

https://x.com/polymarketmoney/status/2001056273500954784?s=4...

Note that “insider trading” is not illegal on prediction markets. The particular issue here is that the employee “disclosed” confidential information on a public forum by influencing the prices assigned to certain outcomes by prediction markets.

I wrote about why prediction markets have a structural insider trading problem that nobody's solved yet: https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-absolute-insider-mess-of...