In case you were wondering, before this morning's Iran attack, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were first used 24 hours earlier.

Betting prediction websites are national security risks, not Anthropic.

@mattsheffield

Once the correlation between betting markets and future real world news is established and widely known, what will be the real world consequences when large bets are placed in order to trigger certain preemptive military responses?

@timjan
thanks for the nightmare fuel!
@mattsheffield
Jim Bell - Wikipedia

@admin
Ughhhh
This does sound vaguely familiar though. I was thinking maybe David Golumbia wrote about this mf but he's not mentioned in The Politics of Bitcoin afaict
@mattsheffield @timjan
@admin oh cool, turns out Golumbia did write about Jim Bell in Cyberlibertarianism, was just flipping through the pdf copy that’s on my to-read list