{"id":140882,"date":"2026-02-07T02:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=140882"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:51:06","slug":"50-on-war-in-iran-how-geopolitical-bets-have-surged-on-polymarket-in-five-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/50-on-war-in-iran-how-geopolitical-bets-have-surged-on-polymarket-in-five-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"$50 on war in Iran: How geopolitical bets have surged on Polymarket, in five charts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical events. The payoffs can be thousands, even millions.<\/p>\n

These platforms have grown in popularity since the\u00a02024 U.S. presidential elections<\/a>, which drew significant interest from geopolitical gamblers. Although most online bets are still placed on sports, Polymarket, Kalshi, and other prediction markets have wagers available for a wide range of subjects \u2014 from the Oscars to Spotify charts and the potential for another U.S. government shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":140885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[794,54,1879,5],"tags":[1155,2663,1425,378,2902],"class_list":["post-140882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-finance-sector","category-money","category-news","tag-big-tech","tag-gambling","tag-geopolitics","tag-marketisation","tag-polymarket"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}