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The bill also prevents senior government officials from betting on prediction markets if they are participating personally in the event on which they are betting.

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/End-Predic...

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If we're not going to ban prediction markets, we could at least make it a requirement that all bets are public and associated with a real identity.

That'd go a long way towards curbing the corruption of these things, while preserving (or even greatly enhancing) their "predictive power."

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Seems like you’d get a secondary proxy market popping up overnight. Like domain privacy for degenerates.
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That's why you make the regulations like AML regulations, where it's a crime to obfuscate the source of the wager too.
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Stop trying to create Internet panopticons. It's completely transparent what you're trying to do.
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Its not transparent to me? What are they trying to do?
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Domain privacy isn't for degenerates.
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And maybe you can start by mandating age verification?
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THIS — make it transparent, not try to ban it.

And the transparency must be real-time and MUST include the full dox on beneficial owner of the contract/bet, with steep jailtime for falsification/fronting, etc.. They can even say it is for tax purposes — they win that bet, they should pay income tax (and be able to deduct the costs of their losing bets against that specific income type).

I want to know if a bunch of senators or DOD personnel bet on event X, and I want journalists and OSINT watchers to know it in realtime. That gives everyone information while naturally eliminating most of the advantage of insider trading, since nearly everyone will pile into the same trade and the odds/payoff will come closer to the reality.

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Knowing who is making the bets doesn’t prevent mildly corrupt officials from driving the outcome that’s going to win them some cash.

Knowing that high-level DOD official were betting on us invading Iran does us no good if the only reason we invaded Iran was so they could win their long-odds bet. Sure, we can try and shame them, but now they're rich and we're fighting another middle-east war.

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It's also low-ranking members of the armed forces that have a lot more information than you'd expect. If you just banned the high ranking members from prediction markets, I actually don't think very much would change. (There would just be slightly more delay.)
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If I was a NOAA meteorologist I'd be making bank insider trading temperature prediction markets.
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Maybe this could be an alternative funding source for weather prediction, haha.
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I mean, North Korea has some very deadly incentives if this whole "buy your prediction" market is brought online.
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Don't forget relatives, useful idiots, and billionaire special envoys!
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The latter two groups often overlap, even
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Congress was not even notified in advance of the wars on Iraq or Venezuela. Any leaks came from the executive branch.
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