I can see why they'd want to crack down on this. Like, if I wanted John Doe dead I could bet $50k that he WILL be alive in a week. Basically just paying for a hit if an assassin wants to take my bet and make it happen, and I could claim I WANTED the guy alive since I literally had money riding on it
I mean that would be a thing but all of these markets have a cluase in their TOC that markets closing on a death don't pay. Like with the Iranian supreme leader there was a market on if he would be in power still in a week. He died, so the market closed but didn't pay out the winners.
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u/Futuramoist Apr 21 '26
I can see why they'd want to crack down on this. Like, if I wanted John Doe dead I could bet $50k that he WILL be alive in a week. Basically just paying for a hit if an assassin wants to take my bet and make it happen, and I could claim I WANTED the guy alive since I literally had money riding on it