{"id":613219,"date":"2026-06-12T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=822336"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:30:20","slug":"world-cup-2026-could-draw-50-billion-in-bets-a-first-for-prediction-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/world-cup-2026-could-draw-50-billion-in-bets-a-first-for-prediction-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 Could Draw $50 Billion in Bets, a First for Prediction Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/world-cup-2026-could-draw-50-billion-in-bets-a-first-for-prediction-markets_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Metlife Stadium\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Macquarie expects the 2026 World Cup to draw more than $50 billion in global wagers, the biggest betting event ever \u2013 a major milestone made even more important by this being the first football event of its kind to play out with regulated U.S. prediction markets and crypto sportsbooks fighting for their share of the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie expects the 2026 World Cup to draw more than $50 billion in global wagers, the biggest betting event ever \u2013 a major milestone made even more important by this being the first football event of its kind to play out with regulated U.S. prediction markets and crypto sportsbooks fighting for their share of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-613219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613219","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=613219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}