JUST IN: An OG trader just dropped $20,000,000 into the YES side of the MicroStrategy “sells any Bitcoin by May 31” market on @Polymarket.
This single buy now holds the #1 largest YES position.
Only 2 hours remain until the UMA dispute window closes.
Trader profile https://t.co/RzoKDAn83X
After today and watching events past few days, I've lost absolutely all trust in @Polymarket.
Will be moving my weather bot and money out of the platform and my trading as well.
"Microstrategy sells any bitcoin by May 31st" has just resolved to "NO".
What I saw today is amongst a handful of the most blatant alleged frauds I've seen from a platform this big to its users in this space.
Would be genuinely surprised if somehow this doesn't end up with much worse consequences for them.
As things are standing, I have no option but to conclude this is the start of their downfall and that another platform will take it's place. I'll /c this later.
Put simply but accurately: they changed the contract (buying shares with a set of conditions/rules) AFTER the agreement (purchase) and AFTER the date chosen had already passed (changed on june 1st, date was may 31st).
Imagine buying a lottery ticket, winning, and when you go to claim they tell you they've decided to change the numbers.
Disgusting and shameless are soft words for this.
Some, as myself, would also say illegal, but that's still to be proven in front of a judge.
It simply makes 0 sense to attempt any type of predictions in Polymarket, as the results of these prediction markets are not grounded in real events nor reliable sources, no matter how much they SAY they are (@arkham had recorded the sale on may 27th I believe), but on what the UMA holders find the most convenient at the time.
Just reading that paragraph makes me even more disgusted.
I can attempt to predict real life events, but I can't predict on what side of the bed the biggest UMA whale wakes up today.
Might as well change every question to "Will UMA holders resolve/decide to...."
After almost a decade of legal training, it's simply impossible for me to think this doesn't end in 1 or more lawsuits, and/or a class action.
There's simply too much evidence and too much money lost.
Of course it's not the first time something similar happens, but it is hands down the biggest and worst one.
Many lost it all.
A platform with a system that can't reflect the truth of events is unfit to be a prediction market.
If a blockchain like Solana wasn't capable of reflecting the truth of its transactions, it wouldn't exist.
Polymarket, in its current state, CAN NOT provide the service they claim they can provide.
The fact $UMA holders (-98% in price btw) coincide with truth is just a matter of intersection of incentives. When they're misaligned (as it happened today), the truth changes, and real life events don't matter anymore.
This is true I believe for any and all prediction markets in polymarket.
What was the most alarming was the changing of the rule on june 1st. Changed from "occurred" (sale) to "announced".
Becuase it leads me to believe there's a high chance it's not only UMA whales in this fiasco, but polymarket changing the frame (mid bet!!!) to cater them as well.
I'm not leaving my money in the hands of a handful of UMA whales 1 minute more. I really wish it wasn't this way.
I didn't really lose anything, unlike others.
I'm just mostly disappointed, and I must embarrasingly admit a little heartbroken.
Seems like just another rigged game.
It would seem as if reality didn't matter in polymarket, only how much a handful of big players stand to gain.
so @Polymarket just resolved “NO” on the saga we all know about and 85M USD is on the line
did MicroStrategy sell BTC before 31 May?
A resounding yes!
Polymarket resolution? NO!
POLYSCAM!
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🚨 THE BIGGEST ORACLE DISPUTE IN @Polymarket HISTORY
$79M is frozen on Polymarket.
A simple yes/no about MicroStrategy.
A rule edited at 1pm the day after.
The rule: "MSTR sells any Bitcoin by May 31, 2026?" Three sentences. Nothing about when confirmation has to arrive.
What happened: MSTR sold 32 BTC between May 26-31. T
heir 8-K filing went public June 1, dating the sale "as of May 31, 4:00 PM ET."
So MSTR sold before the deadline. Their own filing says so. On paper, this was a YES.
Then at 1pm ET on June 1: sixteen hours after the deadline.
Polymarket added a new sentence: "Confirmation achieved outside the timeframe does not qualify."
A sentence added after they knew the answer.
YES collapsed below $0.01.
The detail nobody can explain: the same MSTR question runs on three deadlines.
→ Sells by June 30 → YES ✅
→ Sells by Dec 31 → YES ✅
→ Sells by May 31 → NO ❌
Same 8-K. Same source. Three different answers.
The market is in active dispute and resolves in the next 10 hours.
What do you think it should resolve: YES or NO?