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Re:Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized bett... by drdeca on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:48PM (#17804316)
Well, the money has to come from somewhere. In any case, someone has to be willing to take the other side of your bet, whether it is other participants or the people running the market/betting thing.

I'm not sure what alternative you are considering to not have that problem, or what it would look like for something to not have that problem.

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Re:Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized bett... by gammateam on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:57PM (#17805373)
> I'm not sure what alternative you are considering to not have that problem, or what it would look like for something to not have that problem.

I gave two examples. One isn't in production yet so we'll see

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