We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what

We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America

I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.

Derek Thompson

"where key decision makers in government have the tantalizing options to make hundreds of thousands of dollars by synchronizing military engagements with their gambling position"

To wit: where key decision makers in government can get paid to reveal war secretes to our enemies.

Sure, and pay our enemies to reveal their secrets to us. That's exactly the point of these things. Dangle money in front of people who know things we want to know.

> pay our enemies to reveal their secrets to us

Something tells me China has better opsec around such leaks than we do.