Vitalik Buterin Backs Middle East War Bets

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said he supports the practice of placing money bets on the actions of the terrorist group Hezbollah and other participants in the Middle East standoff. The option recently appeared on the decentralized forecasting platform Polymarket. The bets are on the possible actions of the parties to the conflict in the Middle East: what the Israeli army will do in Lebanon when the fire ceases, whether larger-scale military actions will begin…