An Introduction to Prediction Markets

• Author: Annapurna, Lesswrong (originally Jorge Velez)
• Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5yDmcyTrGPoWyzwBr/an-introduction-to-prediction-markets
  • original
• Related: Financial Investing
• Prediction Markets:
  • exchange-traded markets created for the purpose of trading the outcome of events.
  • ie:
    • Sports Betting
    • https:PredictIt.org
    • https:Metaculus.com
    • Augur
      • p2p, open source, running on Ethereum Network
    • Polymarket
• The author makes the case that while not so useful when used by individuals Prediction Markets could be influential when mainstream and used by important Economic Actors
  • makes the example of the Ever Given Incident