30 points•fortran77•11 days ago•27 comments•

27 comments

N_Lens11 days ago
Polymarket has fraudsters operating on it?! Good heavens, this is entirely unexpected!!
karmakurtisaani11 days ago
A bit lazy take, don't you think?
N_Lens11 days ago
I don’t know mate. Seems like the last bastions of Western Civilization are porn, gambling and conspiracy theories. None of this sounds particularly effortful.
poulpy12311 days ago
The fraudster betting website has fraudsters. What a surprise
fortran7711 days ago
Morromist11 days ago
Thanks. These paragraphs are pretty damning:

"At one point, the processor rejected as fraudulent more than 80% of the deposits it was handling, a rate that far exceeded industry standards of roughly 1%. Polymarket employees quickly raised their concerns with Chief Executive Shayne Coplan, according to people familiar with the events.

The compliance team, those people recalled, was floored by Coplan’s response: Just keep growing and pay a fine if regulators ever find out."

At what point are you a casino and at what point are you just a utility for money laundering, insider betting, scams & fraud?

teravor11 days ago

    > Just keep growing and pay a fine if regulators ever find out.
it's unfortunate that they weren't able to get a lawyer with experience to comment on whether or not he is right.

would certainly be interesting to know if he does risk assessment under the table.

podocarp11 days ago
Gain wealth, forgetting all but self
yieldcrv11 days ago
the onchain version of polymarket seems better in this regard, but they should really address the UMA oracle gang and have some kind of appointment process for separate oracle systems

so both polymarket onchain and polymarket us have major issues, but separate issues

Read the full thread on Hacker News →

Related stories