In a major development, Bitget Wallet has announced the integration of Polymarket directly into its wallet with more than 90 million users. This type of integration is significant in that it allows users to interact with decentralized applications off-chain without having to leave the wallet environment and move into a third-party or external site. This is not a simple redirect nor an embedded browser experience, as per the official announcement. Rather, it is an entirely native in-app feature that enables users to take part in prediction markets directly via Bitget Wallet’s decentralized platform. Say YES to predictions. Aliens. Politics. Sports.
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]]>Polymarket, a decentralized stock market for predictions, is facing a crisis moment. It has alleged governance problems that some very knowledgeable people have suggested are very SERIOUS problems — the kind of problems that could (and an SEC could) make for an unregistered securities offering. Indeed, in recent days, a $7 million bet made on Polymarket has aroused enough controversy that several cryptocurrency insiders have taken to Twitter to express serious and well-argued doubts about Polymarket’s integrity. Alleged Influence from UMA Whale Polymarket’s rapid shift in odds has led some to suspect manipulation, particularly after reports surfaced suggesting a large
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A multi-million bet on “Ethereum ETF approved by May 31” resolved to a “Yes” on Polymarket as news from the SEC broke, but the losing side argues it’s not over yet.
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Carl Erik Rinsch reportedly used nearly $11 million of his Netflix show’s budget to gamble with stocks and crypto and made millions on a single Dogecoin bet.
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Former Chief Technology Officer at Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan, closed out early a bet that the price of bitcoin would hit $1 million by mid-June amid hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar. Srinivasan paid a total of $1.5 million, more than the initially committed $1 million, with two-thirds of the money donated to two organizations. Former Coinbase […]
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The American billionaire entrepreneur and television personality, Mark Cuban, has waged a bet with Creative Planning’s founder Peter Mallouk over the performance of cryptocurrencies versus the S&P 500. Cuban said on Twitter that the two should put $1 million into a stablecoin-based smart contract, in order to place a bet over the return performance of […]
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Many bold predictions about bitcoin’s price have been made over the years, but tech entrepreneur John McAfee’s 2017 claim that BTC would reach $1 million before the end of 2020 garnered more column inches than any other. This is because he promised to, ahem, consume his own manhood – on television no less – if […]
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Anyone getting involved with leveraged trading must assume upon themselves the risks associated with the potentially highly rewarding practice. A recent event should remind traders that, sometimes, even when the trade goes your way, you can still take a hit. Okex socialized one trader’s massive loss on BTC futures with a clawback. Also Read: The […]
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Wagers really don’t settle matters, but they are a lot of fun and force advocates to have some skin in the game. In the ongoing debate about scaling, network fees, congestion and mempools, the Lightning Network is Bitcoin Core’s answer. Some in the ecosystem have doubted its efficacy. A bet was placed. If a payment […]
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Last year on December 22 a firm purchased a $1 million dollar options trade on the Ledger X platform that wagered the BTC/USD market price will be $50,000 by the last month of 2018. This week Juthica Chou, the president of Ledger X chatted with Jared Blikre at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit’s cryptocurrency […]
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