The Communist Origin of the Modern Conservative Movement VI

Predictive marketing is another wide open avenue for criminal activity. Now that people can bet on anything and winners can reap winnings through untraceable crypto currency, it's become very profitable to cheat in sports. And someone put a significant amount of money on the odds that Maduro would be captured and came away with over $400,000. Think someone might have gotten tipped off? Someone close to, or part of, the Trump administration? "The speculative investment was placed shortly before Mr. Trump announced Maduro's arrest at 4:21 a.m. Saturday on Truth Social."

There was a scandal over here involving "strange" bets in football.

Number of fouls, free kicks, own goals etc. not the normal things like win, score etc.

It was Chinese betting syndicates behind it and some footballers were prosecuted.

over here we bet on anything and everything...

Cryptocurrency is going to have to be regulated by the government. When you let criminals keep their transactions secret it threatens everyone. The recent upswing in gambling is sad, and we have even seen people killed to obtain gambling money. We were able to keep a casino from being built in town. We used the local board to stop it, but the local board was bought after that and only had nonsense posted on it after that. The posters were, primarily, police, fire and publics works. After I was transferred to the police department, they had a rule that you could no longer post anything. They failed to make me aware of that rule. When I was talking about posting the other guys told me that I could not do that. I was no longer posting on a local board, so it did not worry me.

We always have.

I don't know if you can now, but at one point we could bet on your presidential elections and you couldn't.

apparently i can (since 2024), should i ever desire to do so....

Election betting is newly legal — and risks getting confused with polls
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/election-betting-newly-legal-risks-getting-confused-polls-rcna177880

Gambling has corrupted baseball, basketball and horse racing, why not politics?

The 6-million-dollar ransom is no doubt on its way, and the cryptocurrency company will do everything possible to protect the identity of the kidnappers because they are protecting their share of the take. If the kidnappers are successful in getting the 6 million there will be thousands of others who will do the same thing.

Crypto currency is tracable to a certain extent, wallets etc.

That is why many scammers ask for gift cards instead.