{"id":446131,"date":"2020-10-12T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktsl888.com\/?post_type=press_release&p=446131"},"modified":"2020-10-12T11:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:31:51","slug":"trump-or-biden-cryptocurrency-prediction-market-for-the-us-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"press_release","link":"https:\/\/ktsl888.com\/press-releases\/trump-or-biden-cryptocurrency-prediction-market-for-the-us-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump or Biden? Cryptocurrency Prediction Market for the US 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
The whole world seems to be watching the US 2020 election and wondering who will be elected president: Trump or Biden. The race sways between the two main candidates and seems different each week.<\/p>\n
News, such as 500 National Security experts endorsing Joe Biden for President, sway the odds and such news has a discernible, miserable effect.<\/p>\n
There are several platforms on the crypto prediction market which are allowing users to follow and even bet cryptocurrencies on the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n
For example, on February 6, 2020, the crypto trading platform FTX Exchange allowed customers<\/a> to start making predictions through a futures contract.<\/p>\n As long as you do not live in the USA, FTX is letting traders purchase short and long positions on Donald Trump being elected in November.<\/p>\n The exchange allowed this by launching a token called TRUMP.<\/p>\n Trump expires to $1 if Donald Trump wins the 2020 US presidential general election, and $0 otherwise.<\/p>\n At the time of the article above, each token was trading for $0.62.<\/p>\n This meant that the odds are in favor (62% chance) of Trump being reelected, according to FTX traders at that time.<\/p>\n However, at the times of this article, the price<\/a> of each TRUMP token had fallen to $0.44 cents per token. This represents a slide to 44% of TRUMP winning.<\/p>\n Other exchanges have different methods of allowing people to express their sentiment.<\/p>\n One exchange<\/a> even allowed people to put money on the outcome of other presidential hopefuls taking the seat, such as Harris or Romney.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a hot topic with even large news outlets such as The Washington Post<\/a> weighing in.<\/p>\n One of the oldest crypto prediction markets, Augur, has shown people placing so many bets that the current volume<\/a> is over $65,000.<\/p>\n The site was correct in 2019 when people predicted with 95% confidence<\/a> that Donald Trump would win the nomination of the republican party for reelection as president.<\/p>\n Now the site is showing a 55% confidence that Donald Trump will also be re-elected for a second term as President of the United States, or, as the Augur question puts it:<\/p>\n \u201cWill Donald J. Trump be elected AND inaugurated as President of the United States for the 2021-2025 presidential term?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It must be said that the crypto prediction markets and their sentiment should be taken with a grain of salt. The sentiments and predictions can be seen across media outlets, but most especially on crypto and Bitcoin gambling sites<\/a>.<\/p>\nA Grain of Salt When Reading the Cryptocurrency Prediction Market<\/h3>\n