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Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:28PM (#46696615)
Also, the crypto scammer in chief’s son is on the board of both major prediction market platforms.

Causing real world problems with prediction markets would probably be about ego and trolling.

I also find a clear political bias in the naming of some of the markets, but that could be simply because of the demography of the user base.

Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:22PM (#46696544)
There’s still limited liquidity. You need to find someone willing to put up a very large amount of money for almost no gain. I also doubt these websites have enough activity to well calibrate near 1 dollar bets, so it’s not clear the market is giving you accurate predictive power with very expensive bets, which means you’re risking a lot (again, for almost no gain).