Re:Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized bett...
by DennisP on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:30PM
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An idea I had a while back was to set up bets on breakthrough technologies, where you can fund X-Prizes by betting against them. The original X-Prize essentially did this by buying insurance against a payoff, which allowed them to significantly increase the prize amount; my idea was basically to crowdsource the insurance side of that.
https://www.climatecolab.org/contests/2015/shifting-attitude...
If you approach it this way there is no reason all bets on the "bad" side have to have "bad" intentions.