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What great opportunity to rig the outcome depending on bets as they come in
by basicplus2 7y ago
What great opportunity to rig the outcome depending on bets as they come in
- chowells 7y agoSure, but why would they want to? Even the slightest hint of that would sink the product and end a line of revenue. If it's successful enough to be worth cheating, it's also successful enough to be worth not cheating and just taking the fees. Of course, the incentives would be different for individual employees, and possibly sufficiently so that the product would forever be tainted with cheating. Unrelated to all those considerations, I think the whole thing is kind of disgusting. It smells like a play to exploit compulsive gamblers by producing an always-available product, even at hours (or months) when there is no game going on. Who does this appeal to, other than compulsive gamblers? All the other reasons I can think of to wager on a sporting event vanish when it's a fake event dressing up a virtual coin flip.