A journalist threatened with death by Polymarket bettors regarding an Iranian strike in Israel

Placing morbid bets on military strikes in wartime no longer seems sufficient for Polymarket bettors, as they now threaten journalists to demand that they rewrite the news in their favor. A case concerning an Iranian strike on Israeli soil officially reported by the Times of Israel, where the bet represented a total volume of 20 million dollars.

Betting on war: predictive markets adrift

The freedom offered by the cryptocurrency sector often collides with the obvious lack of ethics of some of its users, clearly determined to take advantage of this absence of framework to enrich themselves in any way possible, even if it means betting on acts of war.

A reality associated with the strong popularity recorded by predictive market platforms over the past year, recently brought to light following the initiation of American and Israeli strikes in Iran, even if the first detected cases involve the conflict in Ukraine.