Tarek Mansour

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Freakonomics Radio · 688. When Is a Bet Not a Bet? · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

There's a lot of them.

We use a number of them.

They can give you essentially the full profile with a high degree of certainty and do it pretty fast.

And sometimes they don't, and then you have to route them into more checking and more verification, right?

The tree becomes very complicated.

And we've built that over years.

But we know a lot about our customers as the TLDR.

The door?

Definitely the former.

If people don't trust the market over time, they're just gonna stop trading.

Also, if you are a fraudster or an insider today,

And you wanna

You know, commit insider trading.

Would you go to a place that's regulated, that's reporting all your trades to the government, all your trades are transparent, where you have to ID yourself, or would you go to a place where none of these things are true?

I just think offshore prediction markets are a much better venue for fraudsters, right?

Like y they don't know who you are, you just send Bitcoin somewhere, you get paid out, that Bitcoin.

Trades or sports trades?

I hope they invest more in prediction markets, and I hope others do as well.

I think competition is good.

Moving activity from this unhealthy gambling model that promotes addiction to more of an open marketplace model.

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