Person Made Hundreds Of Thousands Betting On Maduro Capture, Spurring Congressional Crackdown

The ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro yielded some speculators a big payday on prediction markets, with one bettor winning a whopping $400,000 as a result of the dictator’s capture and removal. One newly created account on the prediction platform Polymarket speculated on Friday that Maduro would be out of power by Jan. 31, turning […]