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Absolutely horrifying. Today they are bribing journalists to report on a bomb. Tomorrow they will be bribing armies to bomb. This needs to be banned.
by tomtomtom777 7mo ago
Absolutely horrifying.
Today they are bribing journalists to report on a bomb.
Tomorrow they will be bribing armies to bomb.
This needs to be banned.
- bagacrap 7mo agoWho needs a bribe when they can participate in the market directly?
- kibwen 7mo agoMake a bet for "$PUBLIC_FIGURE will be dead by $DATE" and see how quickly people realize that this is just a distributed assassination contract.
- jamilton 7mo agoTechnically any market that's about someone doing something by a certain time can be an assassination contract, if you think the market will it enforce it that way. Can't do it if they're dead.
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- tim333 7mo agoIt was kind of close to that betting on Trump to not win the last election - $3.2bn was bet on Trump vs Kamala and there was of course an assassination attempt although not related to the betting.
- DANmode 7mo ago“Markets related to death are technically not supposed to be allowed at regulated prediction markets in the US.” https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/the-chaos-of-khamenei-prediction https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/the-chaos-of-khamene...
- efdee 7mo agoAlready banned in several European countries, mostly because of the betting on political events.