A Google engineer allegedly used confidential search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket, putting prediction markets on trial.
Key takeaways
- Can a prediction market still call itself an information market when the best information allegedly comes from an employee breaching corporate confidentiality?
- That is the real question behind the federal case against Michele Spagnuolo, a Google software engineer charged with using nonpublic search data to win roughly **$...
- Did AlphaRaccoon expose the weak spot in prediction markets?
- Federal prosecutors say Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old engineer based in Zurich who has worked at Google since 2014, traded on Polymarket under the alias **“Alph...
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