Polymarket let users bet on wildfires. Lawmakers warn that could spur arson.

3 pointsposted 25 minutes ago
by bookofjoe

2 Comments

ponzy_io

17 minutes ago

Really this applies to anything that you can bet on in these prediction markets. If X is an event that you can bet on, then you are potentially incentivizing someone to go out and make sure X actually happens.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this isn't a good thing.