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How do prediction markets settle their bets? | The Economist
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2:58Now PlayingPrediction-market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket let their users bet on world events. But when outcomes are ambiguous, who gets to decide what happened?
Read how these sites adjudicate reality: bit.ly/4vZjB5i
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