{"id":548940,"date":"2026-01-30T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=788217"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:30:18","slug":"polymarkets-success-fuels-legitimacy-of-onchain-prediction-markets-says-tech-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/polymarkets-success-fuels-legitimacy-of-onchain-prediction-markets-says-tech-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket\u2019s Success Fuels Legitimacy of Onchain Prediction Markets, Says Tech Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/feels-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Amit Mahensaria, founder of PRED, argues that the sports betting industry is at a tipping point as decentralized, peer\u2011to\u2011peer platforms challenge the traditional \u201chouse always wins\u201d model. Technical Readiness Meets Cultural Shifts For decades, the sports betting industry has operated under a cynical, century-old mathematical law: the house always wins. While centralized bookmakers have enjoyed [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Mahensaria, founder of PRED, argues that the sports betting industry is at a tipping point as decentralized, peer\u2011to\u2011peer platforms challenge the traditional \u201chouse always wins\u201d model. Technical Readiness Meets Cultural Shifts For decades, the sports betting industry has operated under a cynical, century-old mathematical law: the house always wins. While centralized bookmakers have enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-548940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}