as the Palisades fire consumed the neighborhoods perched on the hills above Los Angeles, a website called Polymarket rushed to open a series of betting markets on the disaster. Users could wager on anything from how many acres would burn by Friday to when the blaze would reach Santa Monica. Some of the pools climbed past $100,000. Polymarket posted updates to its social media account as the odds shifted, with the cheerful specificity of a weather service: There was a 91 percent chance, the platform announced on X, that the Palisades fire would exceed ten thousand acres by Friday. “That’s 12x the size of Central Park,” the post helpfully added.
The STREISAND EFFECT followed as night follows day. HARPERS expressed outrage and THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW howls echoed around the sphere.
Good times.
Crypto-anarchy Archives | Harper's Magazine
Crypto-anarchy or crypto-anarchism is a current movement of anarchism focusing on the protection of privacy, political freedom, counter-surveillance, hacktivism and economic freedom. The adherents of this philosophy use cryptographic software for confidentiality and security while sending and receiving information over computer networks.
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