{"id":51228,"date":"2025-10-06T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=51228"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:46:41","slug":"polymarket-bettors-say-u-s-government-shutdown-will-be-long-but-wont-break-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=51228","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket Bettors Say U.S. Government Shutdown Will be Long But Won&#8217;t Break Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Polymarket bettors are putting their money on the U.S. Government remaining shut until Oct. 15, but they are also saying it will be back in operation within a month.<\/p>\n<p>Bettors are giving a <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/when-will-the-government-shutdown-end\">72% chance<\/a> to the government being back in operation on Oct, 15 or later, with $1.4 million in volume in a $4 million contract on that date range.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/a4bc63477f742fb7c748a4d35e9afb477f4c8eb6-1452x1219.png?auto=format\" alt=\"(Polymarket)\" title=\"(Polymarket)\"><\/p>\n<p>Another contract <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/how-many-days-will-the-federal-government-be-shut-down-in-2025?tid=1759722485331\">which asks for the length of the shutdown<\/a> gives a 67% chance that it goes on for 10-29 days, and only a 27% chance that its longer than a month putting it under the record for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018%E2%80%932019_United_States_federal_government_shutdown\">longest government shutdown in history<\/a> which occurred during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/2b95cb6be5ee4e2da166aa5de998d670f124d41e-1435x1122.png?auto=format\" alt=\"(Polymarket)\" title=\"(Polymarket)\"><\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/10\/05\/bitcoin-pops-over-usd124k-nearing-historic-peak-after-usd3-2b-in-spot-btc-inflows\">market observers are pointing<\/a> to the U.S. government shutdown as a reason why BTC recently rallied, hitting new highs above $125,000. <\/p>\n<p>The Congress is reportedly in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce32eegrlpko\">a stalemate<\/a> with recent resolutions to fund and re-open government failing to hit the required threshold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket bettors are putting their money on the U.S. Government remaining shut until Oct. 15, but they are also saying it will be back in operation within a month. Bettors are giving a 72% chance to the government being back in operation on Oct, 15 or later, with $1.4 million in volume in a $4 [&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-51228","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\/51228","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=51228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}