PANews reported on April 23 that, in response to the hair dryer cheating case on Polymarket, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented: "For incidents like this, it should basically be mandatory to use the median from at least three (or even more) independent data sources."

Previously, it was reported that a man used a hairdryer to interfere with temperature sensors at Paris airport and made $34,000 on the Polymarket weather marketplace .