Jaywalking scum!

Literally crossing the street as humans have done since the street was invented, ruined by cars taking over in the 1900s

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

you've violated the law

It is and it isn't. The hand you get dealt is random (assuming no funny business) but the people who do consistently well are playing their opponents more than their cards.

Insider trading applies to securities. Polymarket bets are not securities.

Manipulation violates Polymarket's ToS, but that's not criminal.

Now, it might meet the legal criteria for fraud, depending on what one does. But that's a "maybe." I'd say that is far easier to get away with than insider trading. EDIT: Especially when hopping jurisdictions (which is not so easy with securities).

risks were calculated

@

but I am bad at math

how did you come to this conclusion? betting on scenarios that are purely random are just gambling.

Same way. Transfer money in once you're on the website and is not being blocked at bank level. They also take crypto so it's not like the bank can block it either even if France tried to block that.

BTW, I think the site and premis behind Polymarket is shit and nobody should use it, but blocking websites effectively has proven difficult at a technical level. (See PirateBay, still going strong despite everything entire governments and massive lobbying power can throw at it, and 4chan's refusal to be blocked by the UK's OSA) Most governments settle for the political win and blocking people with only a casual interest, which is fair enough. Most serious attempts at blocking specific sites tends just to make lawyers richer.

Bt it's not.