Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

It mightiness beryllium World War III, but astatine slightest I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge

Polymarket has been allowing radical to stake connected erstwhile the US would onslaught Iran next. Obviously, present that it's really happened and radical person died, the prediction betting marketplace is feeling immoderate pressure. The tract has been astatine the halfway of contention before, including suspicions of insider trading connected the Super Bowl halftime show and the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

In a connection posted connected its site, Polymarket defended its determination to let betting connected the imaginable commencement of a war, saying that it was an "invaluable" source of news and answers, earlier taking shots astatine accepted media and Elon Musk's X. The connection reads:

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.