{"id":570419,"date":"2026-03-17T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-crack-down-on-prediction-markets-war-bets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:52:56","slug":"us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-crack-down-on-prediction-markets-war-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/us-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-crack-down-on-prediction-markets-war-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers introduce bill to crack down on prediction markets war bets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The BETS OFF Act from two Democratic lawmakers came in response to several \u201chighly unusual bets\u201d on the US-Israel conflict with Iran, suggesting insider information.<\/p>\n

Two Democratic lawmakers in the US Congress have introduced legislation in response to \u201cgovernment corruption\u201d over bets on prediction markets platforms.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday announcement, Texas Representative Greg Casar and Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy said<\/a> they had introduced the Banning Event Trading on Sensitive Operations and \u200bFederal Functions (BETS OFF) Act after several Polymarket accounts made \u201chighly unusual bets\u201d that a war between the US and Israel against Iran would begin. <\/p>\n

Murphy said on March 4<\/a> that it was likely that people with \u201cinside information\u201d of US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to bomb Iran had made the bets.<\/p>\n

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The BETS OFF Act from two Democratic lawmakers came in response to several \u201chighly unusual bets\u201d on the US-Israel conflict with Iran, suggesting insider information. Two Democratic lawmakers in the US Congress have introduced legislation in response to \u201cgovernment corruption\u201d over bets on prediction markets platforms. In a Tuesday announcement, Texas Representative Greg Casar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-570419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570419","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=570419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}