Google engineer charged with $1.2M Polymarket insider trading
A Google engineer made $1.2M on Polymarket betting on who would be announced as the most searched person of the year was just arrested for insider trading. People need to realize only government officials get away with that blatant a degree of insider trading.
Hazard 2 Navigation26fuck polymarket and fuck peter thiel. "predictive markets" is end stage cynicism. these ghouls are so anaerobic the only thing that can get their interest is hunger games style casinos. and they'll take us all down with them.
Ash484819He should use government officials daily insider trading to argue his defense.
@AllyD17767😂 yeah if you’re a small fish the’ll be happy to charge you but not big fish
Thinkronicity ™6Yes, because If there is a scam, there is a Trump involved. #Polymarket
derelict515.bsky.social6meanwhile Polymarket’s entire product pitch is that the information on their market is valuable because of the existence of these criminals
Believer in justice, good wine, travel and dogs41600 Pennsylvania Ave -- DOJ MIGHT want to check there too
Fury4Not charging the actual gambling site owners with illegal gambling and book making and fraud and theft is a choice i guess.
Steve Brady3I googled this story to verify and this image was top of the cheap...
Barry Hochberg2And yet, Congress - AND the President - does this on the daily! Go figure...
morey0002Charges dropped after engineer donated $1M to Trump?
A Google security engineer allegedly made over $1 million on a Polymarket trade about the most-searched person in 2025.
K a s s i e D e e19Insider trading is only allowed if you’re a politician or the president.
macleanw4I thought insider trading was legal now? Someone should inform the Trump admin.
nate2077.bsky.social3Trump DOJ is really working hard to make it look like they are aggressively going after insider trading on these platforms. I guess they just want to get more rubes onto these platforms so they can run their own insider trading schemes. After all you betting against other people not the house.
Josh V2The only surprise here was that an arrest was actually made.
from a former astronomy student to a dad of three, i spoke to the men fuelling polymarket and kalshi (and making millions off it) and also experts who say the government needs to do more about insider trading and that betting on human suffering will only make our society more depraved :) yay
evy kwong31one thing that definitely trends is that we were way too online during the pandemic lockdown (two of the men here transitioned out of their field to prediction markets content bc of it) and how the marketing really, really targeted young men
Merle Scott3Between the explicit targeting of young men in their advertisements and the rampant insider trading, I’m not sure we could categorize polymarkets as anything other than inherently evil.
