{"id":542477,"date":"2026-01-16T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/trump-says-venezuela-leaker-jailed-as-polymarket-accounts-go-quiet\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:52:41","slug":"trump-says-venezuela-leaker-jailed-as-polymarket-accounts-go-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/trump-says-venezuela-leaker-jailed-as-polymarket-accounts-go-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says \u2018Venezuela leaker\u2019 jailed as Polymarket accounts go quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US President Donald Trump said the \u201cleaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail\u201d as some Polymarket accounts tied to early bets on Maduro\u2019s ouster go silent.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump said the \u201cleaker on Venezuela\u201d has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed bets earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail right now,\u201d Trump said<\/a> in the Oval Office on Wednesday, according to a video posted by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Although Trump did not mention prediction markets, blockchain analysts such as Lookonchain have speculated that the leaker could be linked to a cluster of Polymarket accounts that placed concentrated bets<\/a> on Venezuela outcomes just hours before the news became public.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump said the \u201cleaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail\u201d as some Polymarket accounts tied to early bets on Maduro\u2019s ouster go silent. US President Donald Trump said the \u201cleaker on Venezuela\u201d has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-542477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}