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@mert It's a nice example of the importance of rhetoric

@mert Dibs! x.com/0xAvsar/status/208511437…

@mert robin hanson came up with it in 1990

@mert What about rebranding bitcoin to receipts

@mert Until the music stops. My guess is in 15 years? We will have a massive wave of regulation on prediction markets, perps, etc. Zero sum games are extremely destructive and it’s going to ruin generations

@mert It's really just business x.com/clocktoss/status/2085114…

@mert and i've still havent fallen for it

@mert Hair is here! Not available yet, but coming soon. Follow along for even more before/after pictures. x.com/JeffVincint/status/20850…

@mert Prediction markets and AI are converging. One generates probabilities, the other consumes them.

@mert Friend, I hope it works

@mert makes gambling sound like research

@mert House always wins…

@mert Maybe rebranding meme coins paired with tokenized stocks to new financial assets will be somewhat great too ?

@mert Same machinery, cleaner vocabulary. People who'd never set foot in a sportsbook will happily put money on Polymarket because it sounds like analysis instead of risk.

@mert x.com/MaxiHielo/status/2085122…

@mert 💡 yes no options

@mert x.com/Crypto4202/status/208512…

@mert Turns out “prediction” is a much cheaper word than “betting” in a board deck.

@mert "prediction market" sounds smarter than "betting app", but the user is still asking one thing: what odds can I get, and can I cash out fast?

@mert The framing shifts how people rationalize the behavior Gambling becomes data analysis in their own minds

@mert every bet is a prediction 💡

@mert Better than Crypto to Web3

@mert nothing moves capital like a fresh coat of jargon

@mert The goy got got  x.com/_Russ3y_/status/20851326…

@mert Wait till you hear about opinion markets

@mert it’s trading bro 🤓

@mert Synonym 😄. Betting ~ Predictions

@mert Wall Street spent decades making gambling sound respectable - prediction markets just finished the job for like 2 months

@mert The growth guy in me has to respect it lol. Same product as the sportsbook but "prediction market" gets you quoted on the news instead of banned from advertising.

@mert greatest marketing move or just calling it what it is betting dressed up as analysis is still betting

@mert dfs ran this exact play in 2015 call it "skill" instead of gambling, dodge PASPA, print for a decade predicting markets is just round two

@mert It would be interesting if these performative votes were tracked, so that when legislator X breaks from their party when the result is inconsequential their constituency can see the score. Would be an interesting stat.

@mert event contracts

@mert Almost. First place was separating “alcohol” from “drugs”.

@mert bots to agents is up there

@mert quite incredible verbiage maxxing

@mert It's a bit like they always find new names for sugar that aren't sugar... They always find new names for gambling that aren't gambling... NFTs, Memecoins, DeFi, Prediction Markets, Options Trading, etc...

@mert For sure

@mert Same with rebranding Pokémon cards as gatcha with auto buyback options. It’s gambling.

@mert for fucking real dawg

@mert rebranding bitcoin to zcash is even greater tbh

@mert impermanent loss type shit

@mert THIS

@mert Betting + Insider Trading = Prediction Markets

@mert House always win

@mert It is

@mert “Probability data as a service”

@mert Turns out punters click harder when you call the roulette wheel a macro product.

@mert Wait to we rebrand the entire capital markets to decision markets

@mert Time to also rebrand gambling addiction to prediction enthusiast