I have decided to speak publicly.
I am 20 years old. I am a second-year undergraduate student at King’s College London.
I am not a fund. I am not an institution. I am not a professional trader with a team behind me. I am just a student who read the market rule carefully and believed the English words meant what they said.
I put around 35,000 USDC into YES on the Polymarket market about whether MicroStrategy sold any Bitcoin by May 31, 2026.
I did not do that because I was gambling blindly. I did it because I read the rule. I read it again. And again.
The rule said YES if MicroStrategy sold any Bitcoin by May 31.
It did not say the sale had to be publicly disclosed by May 31. It did not say there had to be an SEC filing before the deadline. It did not say later evidence would not count.
To me, that matters.
I have studied enough to know that words matter. Rules matter. English matters. If a market writes one condition before people trade, then after the outcome adds another condition through “context,” ordinary users have no protection.
Without adding extra market context after the fact, I still do not understand how this market can fairly resolve to NO.
These 35,000 USDC are not just numbers on a screen to me. This money matters to my life. I cried for an entire night. I felt helpless in a way I have never felt before. I even had thoughts of ending my life.
But I am still here.
I am still here because I realized this cannot just be about me. If I disappear, the story disappears. If everyone stays quiet, the next person will be alone too. The next market will happen. The next unclear resolution will happen. The next ordinary user will be told to accept it and move on.
That is why I started #StopPolyScam.
Some people contacted me and told me to launch a meme coin around this. I refused.
I do not want people’s money.
I do not want to turn anger into another token.
I only want fairness.
I want Polymarket to answer one question in plain language:
Where did the written rule say “publicly disclosed by May 31”?
If that rule exists, show it.
If it does not exist, then users should not lose because of a condition that was never written before they traded.
I am asking journalists, lawyers, crypto researchers, public figures, exchange founders, and anyone with influence to look at this carefully. Do not believe me blindly. Look at the rule. Look at the timeline. Look at the evidence. Then ask whether this is how a serious market should work.
I know I am small. I know I may lose. I know many powerful people may ignore this.
But I also know that if written rules can be changed by interpretation after money is already in, then no user is safe.
A market without trust is just a machine that takes risk from ordinary people and gives them silence when they ask questions.
I am not asking for sympathy.
I am asking for fairness.
I am asking for accountability.
I am asking people to help me make sure this does not disappear quietly.
If you can help, please contact:
[email protected]
Rule before trade.
#StopPolyScam
@jdorman81@aradtski Or the resolution time could have been end of the day, where MSTR would have filed the 8K and there would be no need for disputes as the single source of truth
.@shayne_coplan@Polymarket
$74M of volume handed to ten wallets who treat your oracle like their personal fleshlight
your "mstr-sold-btc-by-may-31" market is resolving NO.
the 8-K filed june 1 confirms mstr sold 32 btc between may 26-31. on-chain shows ~411 btc moved to coinbase prime on may 29, first outflow in 3.5 years per @arkham. june 30 and december 31 sub-markets both at 100% YES because the sale fucking happened in the window
your rules name three resolution sources: MSTR filings, on-chain data, consensus reporting. all three confirm sale in window. resolving NO requires every voter to check which way the whales pissed and aim the same direction
then you dropped a banner saying "confirmation achieved outside of the market's time frame does not qualify" and quietly rewrote the question from "did mstr sell btc by may 31" to "did a press release land by may 31." you ran the first one for 35 days, ate $74M of volume on it, and resolved the second one. clarification dragged wherever the bag needed it to go
mstr files weekly on mondays. every trader bidding YES knew the 8K was coming. smart money front ran the disclosure exactly as the rules were written. then a discord circle jerk of UMA bagholders reframed event timing as announcement timing mid dispute, and every voter who could read the room said yes sir to avoid getting slashed
easy fix: when primary resolution source confirms event in window, market resolves on the event. if you want announcement timing markets, write the fucking words "publicly confirmed by [deadline]" into the rules. you override sports payouts when umpires fuck up. all it takes is a junior engineer and a weekend to ship the same logic. you have a bunch of UMA whales on speed dial and shipping the fix means admitting that out loud
ngmi
Shame on Polymarket
If left unchanged, this will lead to the downfall of their platform. Users have other platforms to use, it will be Polymarket's loss
Could have easily set the resolution date to to be after MSTR's weekly update cadence and none of this requires dispute
Polymarket Strategy Bitcoin-Sale Bet Sparks Dispute After "No" Ruling
Polymarket’s market on whether Strategy sold Bitcoin before the end of May resolved to "No" after drawing about $118 million in volume, triggering community debate over the ruling. Some users questioned whether Polymarket’s later explanation changed how the original rules were applied.
Polymarket said it was aware of the dispute and would issue any clarification by 1 p.m. ET on June 1; if no statement was released by then, the team would provide no further clarification, and the market would proceed to settlement at that time.
Love that CT is starting to explore & learn options
Still ways to go but its a good start
Curious Question - Why is everyone hyping over @DeriveXYZ and @ryskfinance instead of using @DeribitOfficial ? (Aside from non-Deribit listed assets)