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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These "bet on anything" sites know people with insider info cheat, and don't care.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The people running the sites take a cut from the other people getting richer.

The real question is who the fuck is betting against that? What a weirdly degenerate thing to bet on without insider info

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

It certainly is heinous. I’m assuming a bunch of people had running bets that Iran wouldn’t be bombed inside a certain time period.

Maybe there's people indirectly bribing trump&co by putting in bets against it ahead of time?

[–] stinerman@feddit.online 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The crazier thing is that other bettors know people with inside info are cheating and don't care.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Thé Guy above ypu made a good argument, that a great way to bribe making it look like a bet.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh ya because pulling off a bribe right now is a real operation.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno, is there only one action allowed at the same time ? I mean the world isn't linear, things can happen at the same time.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure you could just hand him a gold sword on international tv.

But what if we...

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont' understand what you are saying. Is it some kind of North American reference ?

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They.

Don't.

Prosecute.

Bribery.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's the defense industry insuring against peaceful years.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

insider trading about inside trading?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

It's insider trading all the way down

[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I mean, I’m sure there’s insider betting and all, but I don’t think you need inside information to predict the USA will bomb a school in Iran…

edit: gotta capitalize

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago

You can't tell me what to do!

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

As they say in poker, if you can't spot the fish at the table, it's you.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

WRONG WRONG WRONG

There are laws and enforcement, but only for working class people and well-off Democrats.

[–] stinerman@feddit.online 44 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The only winning move is not to play.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] stinerman@feddit.online 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is just like gambling on sports when you know that the players are also betting. It's insane.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd say it is much worse than that, but an apt analogy.

[–] idyllic@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago

It is much worse - the fucking players already know the outcome for a particular play.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The house always wins.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LOL... the orange pedophile rapist is taking open bribes with his eCoin and other scams...

Betting based on classified intelligence is like coffee money

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are probably him giving bribes to others, right? He gets to essentially anonymously give someone money without having to actually spend any of his own money

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, he took Billions from people who had to know there was no economic value to his eCoin.

All that money went directly to trump... now they get whatever they asked for

[–] whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think skua is saying that trump can give someone the classified intelligence and then the person can make the bet and collect the winnings without trump having to pay them himself.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly this, yes

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't all these bets made of a blockchain? Aren't these transactions traceable from wallet to wallet?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

There's a bunch of ways to prevent blockchain tracing now. It's much more likely that you'll be identified by your internet connection or web browsing.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Regardless of the bet, there are ALWAYS insiders... at the least the house.

The house always wins

This also applies to the stock market, USAs favorite casino

Who's "the house" for the stock market? The FED

About 4-5 hours (IIRC) before, the massive drop-off in bar activity around the pentagon made it obvious something was happening imo. But not sure what evidence was 6 hours before (bar activity was normal at the time I think).

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Can I place a bet that we'll find proof of this? And a parlay bet that nothing will come of it?

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can we like... Sue, over this? This has to be illegal, right?

I get that I sound like a whiny nerd saying 'BuT ThEy Can'T DO tHaT!' But let's be honest legality is this administration's weakpoint

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

They aren't supposed to, but many do anyway. It's all rotten through and through

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Got to prove it first and unfortunately I think that would be very difficult without more to cause a proper investigation.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

There's a reason Trump brought attention to only insider stock trading at the State of the Union. They're 100% playing the prediction betting market.

monitor things that the us gov has control over for large sudden bets

copy those bets

money

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