{"id":142585,"date":"2026-03-16T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142585"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:00:00","slug":"polymarkets-iran-surge-helps-trigger-washingtons-crackdown-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142585","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket\u2019s Iran surge helps trigger Washington\u2019s crackdown bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After billions in bets on a U.S.\u2013Iran strike and an insider scandal on platforms like Polymarket, Democrats push the DEATH BETS Act, targeting prediction markets that trade on war, terror and death. Prediction markets just ran into Washington\u2019s moral panic.\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After billions in bets on a U.S.\u2013Iran strike and an insider scandal on platforms like Polymarket, Democrats push the DEATH BETS Act, targeting prediction markets that trade on war, terror and death. Prediction markets just ran into Washington\u2019s moral panic.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":142586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}