{"id":498,"date":"2024-10-01T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2024-10-01T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:01:44","slug":"ethereum-creator-vitalik-buterin-bats-for-polymarkets-model-amid-concerns-over-betting-on-israel-hezbollah-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin Bats For Polymarket&#8217;s Model Amid Concerns Over Betting On Israel-Hezbollah War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) co-founder, <strong>Vitalik Buterin<\/strong>, threw his support behind the cryptocurrency-based prediction market <strong>Polymarket<\/strong>, emphasizing its value in providing accurate information and preventing misinformation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: On Monday, Buterin argued in favor of the so-called decentralized prediction market that has grown in popularity this U.S. election season. <\/p>\n<p>The defense came in response to an X user finding issues with the multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/markets?_q=hez\">events <\/a>on Polymarket\u2019s site betting on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, involving Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels wrong that Polymarket has an entire Hezbollah betting section that makes a war look like a football game to bet on,\u201d the user said.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin supported the platform, saying that it doubled up as a credible news website for viewers who otherwise are exposed to disinformation on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s all kinds of people (incl elites) on Twitter and the internet making harmful and inaccurate predictions about conflicts, and being able to go &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41110897\/ethereum-creator-vitalik-buterin-bats-for-polymarkets-model-amid-concerns-over-betting-on-\" alt=\"Ethereum\" creator vitalik buterin bats for polymarket model amid concerns over betting on israel-hezbollah war>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, threw his support behind the cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, emphasizing its value in providing accurate information and preventing misinformation. What Happened: On Monday, Buterin argued in favor of the so-called decentralized prediction market that has grown in popularity this U.S. election season. The defense came in response to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}