I don’t think they are trying to masquerade as the author so much as imply a positive association or endorsement.

>keeping the overall network fresh and relevant

What does this mean? Like in practical feature terms and benefit to the end user?

Your system kills the social networks ability to act as someone's modern day rolodex of contact information of previous acquaintances. What do they get in exchange for that?

Social networks aren't rolodexes. They're newspapers.

You know you can just walk out the door with the items without using the scanner at all right?

Everything? No. Software? Absolutely.

More accurate information about the world allows for more effective decision making.

If people are insider trading so blatantly, there's no "more accurate information" here until it's too late and it's already news. You're just getting scammed

What do you mean "it's already news"? As in it's already happened?

I don't understand why insider trading would only happen as something becomes news. The inside knowledge haver is risking the information leaking some other way before they make their bet. Some very risk averse insider traders (lol?) may do so, but others are going to make their bets when they learn their information.

Assuming that they don't though, and every insider trader only ever makes their bets right before an event, I don't see how that changes anything? People working with non-insider knowledge are still going to be betting against each other before that point. They are still going to establish a likelihood of a thing happening that's more accurate than I would by myself.

The potential for scamming is high at low dollar figures sure. At some point of volume though, it's going to become too expensive to do.

I'm not saying insider trading would happen only as something becomes news. I'm saying you, as the outsider, doesn't find anything out until very close to the prediction materializing. That information provided to you by the insider comes very close to the event happening, because that's how the insider minimizes the risk that the event unfolds differently from their bet.

> People working with non-insider knowledge are still going to be betting against each other before that point. They are still going to establish a likelihood of a thing happening that's more accurate than I would by myself.

How is this useful information at all? Other than to sate your curiosity and undiagnosed gambling problem.

Price discovery in capital markets is useful because, well, there is no other way to discover price. By definition, the price of an asset is what someone is willing to pay for it.

Event discovery in prediction markets is throwing your money away hoping you guessed right, despite the fact that the biggest markets have insiders who are always going to outperform you. It's a sucker's game.

The hole point of a prediction market is to surface insider trading and information asymmetry by voting with what matters most [in trading markets], money.

In other terms, it allows people to transfer risk to money , or information for money.

No, that is not the point of a prediction market, though many people have been led to believe as much.

Just a cloud dev infrastructure provider like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.

You understand that Facebook and Instagram are also very popular yes?

If you spend your time hyping performance instead of the things your prospects care about then you will get less sales.

Why are you accrediting Houston to the free market rather than Tokyo?

Flat revenue for the last few years while in a market that’s otherwise growing. I don’t know if just maintaining while your competitors grow counts as “falling apart” but it isn’t good.