The post Trump Still Favored by Crypto Bettors to Win Election, Despite Guilty Verdict appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

We do the research, you get the alpha! Get exclusive reports and access to key insights on airdrops, NFTs, and more! Subscribe now to Alpha Reports and up your game! Go to Alpha Reports The news of Donald Trump’s guilty verdicts in a New York courtroom Thursday dominated global headlines, but for crypto holders gambling on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November, nothing has fundamentally changed. Over $142 million is riding on “Presidential Election Winner 2024,” the top political wager on crypto betting site Polymarket—which, notably, is not officially available to U.S. residents. For more than a week, Trump’s odds of winning has held stable at about 56%, mirroring many mainstream political polls. After the verdict was announced, live odds meandered between 53% and 55%, where it stands as of this writing. There were many separate betting markets set up for the trial on the Polymarket site. Just prior to the jury’s delivery of its across-the-board guilty verdicts for the former president, users collectively saw a 77 percent chance of a conviction. Only $204,000 was riding on this particular wager, however, which remains open for dispute for another hour as of this writing. More than four times that amount—$800,000—is riding on whether Trump will be in jail before election day—and those odds only rose slightly after the verdict was announced. While it rose from a stable 14% chance earlier Thursday to as high as 20% moments after the news broke, the odds have settled to 17% currently. The collective shrug on Polymarket was a bit of a contrast to the response on Crypto Twitter, with some declaring Trump’s verdict nothing short of a call for revolution. “Buy guns. Buy Bitcoin. Move to a red state,“ exhorted Ryan Selkis, founder and CEO of crypto research outfit Messari. “The…

---

Filed under: News - @ June 1, 2024 1:08 pm