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Betting on War: How One Soldier’s $400K Polymarket Win Ended in a Federal Arrest

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The $400,000 Military Bet: How a U.S. Soldier’s Polymarket Wager Exposed a National Security Crisis

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Washington DC, In a plot straight out of a techno-thriller, a U.S. Army soldier has been arrested for allegedly using classified intelligence to bet on a high-stakes military operation. The case involving Gannon Ken Van Dyke and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is sent shockwaves through Washington, exposing a dangerous new vulnerability: prediction markets as a tool for information warfare.

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