> They admit no returns. So it's not a useful trading strategy. Good to know. It might have worked out that the human tendency towards optimism biased the Yes

> They admit no returns. So it's not a useful trading strategy. Good to know. It might have worked out that the human tendency towards optimism biased the Yes side, but Polymarket is watched closely enough by traders that the pricing is apparently realistic. Now if you could bet against minor crypto coins, which almost always go down... But if you could, there would be traders pricing them realistically. Everybody has analytics now, and mispriced markets are detected and exploited quickly.