Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. Thats a Problem

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News Summary

  • Critics call platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi online casinos, where insider trading runs rampant.
  • With Polymarket, users trade shares using cryptocurrency to bet on the outcomes of real-world events.
  • A US Army special forces soldier allegedly received a payout of $400,000 by "predicting" the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.
  • Former Congressman George Santos allegedly won tens of thousands of dollars by betting he wouldn't be at Trump's State of the Union address, despite posting on X that he would be.
In late May, federal authorities charged a Google software engineer with insider trading after he won $1.2 million on the predictionmarket website Polymarket.

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