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masklinnyesterday at 7:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Obviously this is a horrible use case, and I'm not sure if such websites actually exist or are just rumors.

polymarket has an @died tag, which I assume is for betting on people's deaths (I never used the site, and it's currently inaccessible) given apparently someone recently made half a mil betting on Khamenei's death, and a cool billion was traded on bets on the timing of the bombing of iran https://www.npr.org/2026/03/01/nx-s1-5731568/polymarket-trad...


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jacquesmyesterday at 9:56 PM

> and a cool billion was traded on bets on the timing of the bombing of iran

Oh, trump made some money?

fwipsyyesterday at 11:07 PM

nit: The article you linked says half a billion, not a billion.

Death markets are banned in the US. Personally, I tend to think of this as a crypto problem, not a prediction market problem.