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
Wallah le jours ou g osez lui avouez que je préférer les cheveux lisses alors qu’elle les avais bouclé et ql a commencer à pleurer j’avais l’impression d’être un teurpoin qui parler avec un bb
Messi coming out of retirement to get a ticket for Argentina to go to WC in 2018
People talk about trophies now, but they have no idea what Messi went through with this national team. The criticism, the trolling, the accusations, the finals lost, the burden of carrying a football-crazy nation on his shoulders.
And when Argentina needed him most, he did what the GOAT always does.
A hat-trick. A masterclass. A World Cup ticket secured.
What a player. What a night. What a man. 🐐🇦🇷
C’est tellement le joueur de ma vie … il a perdu il s’est pas donner en spectacle , il a respecté la cérémonie dans la dignité et 8 ans plus tard il a tout rafler mdrrrrr je l’aime trop purée
Le capital social et les connexions les frères, c'est ça la vraie différence
Pendant que ça mendie des alternances pour pouvoir juste vivre un MINIMUM, y'a des mecs à 22 ans on leur offre un salaire top 5% et DEUX chauffeurs pendant que vous prenez le RER qui roule pas