🧠 Vitalik Buterin and crypto betting: how to earn from someone else's madness

The co-founder of Ethereum admitted that in 2025 he earned about $70,000 on the Polymarket prediction market 📊

The starting bank was approximately $440,000.

According to Vitalik, his strategy is simple and… cold:

• he enters the markets in what is called "crazy mode" 🤯

• and bets AGAINST irrational FOMO, expecting that the "wildness" simply won't happen.

🎯 Examples of such bets:

• 🏆 Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump

• 💵 sharp decline of the dollar

• and other loud but unlikely scenarios

📉 Criticism of Polymarket

Buterin notes that the platform is overloaded:

• with short-term

• trendy

• and, in his opinion, socially useless predictions

At the same time — an important nuance 👀

💰 In 2024, Vitalik invested in Polymarket, participating in a round of $45 million led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.