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A $1.2M Polymarket Bet Puts Google Secrets on Trial

A Google engineer allegedly made $1.2M on Polymarket using internal search data, exposing prediction markets’ insider risk.

Key takeaways

  • A Google engineer’s alleged $1.2 million Polymarket profit is not a quirky crypto-betting scandal; it is a warning that prediction markets can turn workplace secre...
  • The Google Polymarket Case Shows Prediction Markets Have an Insider Trading Problem
  • The U.S. Justice Department charged Michele Spagnuolo, a Google software engineer, with insider trading after prosecutors said he made more than **$1.2 million...
  • If the complaint is accurate, this was not smart forecasting. It was not clever market reading. It was a corporate insider allegedly taking private business informatio...

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