{"id":68500,"date":"2026-01-20T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68500"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:46:32","slug":"two-countries-just-banned-polymarket-in-48-hours-what-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68500","title":{"rendered":"Two Countries Just Banned Polymarket In 48 Hours\u2014What Is Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Polymarket has been issued orders to cease operations in Portugal and Hungary amid attracting millions in bets on elections in both countries. <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Portugal Bans Political Betting After Election Surge<\/h3>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s gambling regulator SRIJ (Servi\u00e7o de Regula\u00e7\u00e3o e Inspe\u00e7\u00e3o de Jogos) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2026\/01\/20\/portugal-joins-growing-list-of-countries-cracking-down-on-polymarket\">ordered<\/a> Polymarket to cease operations after bets on the January 18 presidential election exceeded 103 million euros ($120 million) in trading volume.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown stems from Portugal\u2019s 2015 online gambling law, which explicitly prohibits betting on political events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The platform operates without a license in the country, where only sports betting, casino games, and horse racing are legal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe website is not authorized to offer betting in Portugal, as national law prohibits &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/50008193\/two-countries-just-banned-polymarket-in-48-hours-what-is-going-on?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Two\" countries just banned polymarket in hours is going on>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket has been issued orders to cease operations in Portugal and Hungary amid attracting millions in bets on elections in both countries. Portugal Bans Political Betting After Election Surge Portugal\u2019s gambling regulator SRIJ (Servi\u00e7o de Regula\u00e7\u00e3o e Inspe\u00e7\u00e3o de Jogos) ordered Polymarket to cease operations after bets on the January 18 presidential election exceeded 103 [&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-68500","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\/68500","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=68500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}