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'Bone-Chilling': Gamblers ‘Vowing to Kill’ Journalist Unless He Changes Iran War Report to Help Them Win Polymarket Bet (www.commondreams.org)

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[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

No joke, this is actually very much how it works. For disputes they use UMA tokens, which allows whales to just buy the vote. Although "being too expensive to corrupt" is the point, there's a bunch of recent news about votes for $50 million markets bought with $7 million worth of coins (which are reusable, once you own them, you can vote on every dispute with the same tokens and voting power).

[–] ivanvector@piefed.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

Well gee, that doesn't sound like a nightmare of a Ponzi scheme at all