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> especially in a multipolar world where American sanctions increasingly fail

You're claiming the U.S. government is impotent against holding Polymarket to account?

> These markets are global

The trades in question are bets on Polymarket and Intercontinental Exchange Brent oil futures. These are well within the remit of American law enforcement.

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>You're claiming the U.S. government is impotent against holding Polymarket to account?

Yes, if US regulators quash Polymarket their lunch will be eaten by a global competitor HQ'd in a country the US can't touch.

A lot of the insider weekend trading of oil is happening on hyperliquid, a DEX associated with developers in Singapore, what can the SEC or CFTC do to them?

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Why would the U.S. government want to sabotage prediction markets when the chief executive has a vested interest in keeping them legitimate?
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> Why would the U.S. government want to sabotage prediction markets when the chief executive has a vested interest in keeping them legitimate?

"Solving" the problem of administration juniors compromising our military for profit doesn't require sabotaging anything. Just the exchanges turning over records.

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you may have missed that all those have been happening for months and are tightly tied to the trump administration ?

same administration who has a son sitting on the board and a father president who has lifted all sanctions and investigations.

we even have video of representatives placing their bets or buying stock during session, right before voting on the matter.

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