We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.
We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.
Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz
Anyone trying to push some bullshit, even tongue and cheek bullshit, about voting for dems in 2028 should be excised from your life.
The ONLY thing that matters now is winning 2028. Having executive control over the census and the federal government, especially with the new powers from yesterday's ruling is what matters.
Blackwater founder Erik Prince:
Trump was 'badly advised'" on the Iran operation, with the mission "poorly planned."
When asked what he'd do if he were running the operation, he says:
I have an idea, but will not air it publicly.
Off the record, he told the reporter more.
The only detail that could be published is that his idea was not the 14-point ceasefire deal Trump ultimately signed in Versailles.
Source: FT