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Comment by insane_dreamer

5 hours ago

not really because there are mechanisms in place to prevent "insider trading" in sports (not that they're entirely successful)

90% of the volume on prediction market sites is on sports. Yes, there are smaller markets that are easy to manipulate, but that's no different from traditional sportsbooks.

Yes, What MrBeast says on his next video is easy to fix, but so is something like betting on a D3 basketball player to have less than 10 points or some English 5th league soccer player to have a yellow card.