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Uhhrrryesterday at 8:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

Placing a bet based on insider national security information should be regarded as leaking. But the markets aren't the problem here.


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jimkleiberyesterday at 8:36 PM

Well markets give a huge financial incentive for it. Before you had to get paid a bribe for an intelligence agent. Now you can just "legitimately" bet on a market. It's a LOT easier and more spread out, I imagine.

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_vertigoyesterday at 9:25 PM

You couldn’t design a better system for incentivizing leaks if you were trying. Hell, the CEO literally said as much. Not sure how you can conclude the markets aren’t the problem.

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w4yaiyesterday at 10:48 PM

Let's make bets on "xxxx leaked yyyy info", so people will be incentived to discover/denounce who cheated.