Defeatist nonsense, and wrong. The US was regulating this until Trump. A friendl...

qsera · 2026-03-16T12:58:31 1773665911

>"Pushing it underground" discourages the majority of bettors from using it, and that is a good thing.

But don't you think that will be the "good" majority? And the "bad" minority will continue using the underground version?

orwin · 2026-03-16T13:14:48 1773666888

With way, way less money involved. Hence limiting the reach and power of this minority.

qsera · 2026-03-16T14:04:09 1773669849

Yes, makes sense.

But may be there is also an upside. May be it would actually cause the people to take notice of what is going on around them and actually starting to use their brains (to make predictions) instead of simply consuming 24x7 news.

orwin · 2026-03-16T23:19:55 1773703195

I'd rather them playing chess or hell, Pokémon. Or reading books.

qsera · 2026-03-17T04:00:19 1773720019

But money is a lot better motivator that is also universal.

mpalmer · 2026-03-17T12:20:12 1773750012

Yeah, clearly it makes you FIGHT the news

zbentley · 2026-03-16T13:01:44 1773666104

> the "bad" minority will continue using the underground version?

…which they already did before this market was made mainstream.