
Opium Witness
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Opium Witness
@MarketOpium
just watching. unfortunately.







We've heard your feedback, and we're excited to announce Polymarket is getting a full exchange upgrade. Over the next few weeks, we're rolling out a rebuilt trading engine, upgraded smart contracts, and a new collateral token (Polymarket USD) to move off USDC.e. 🧵




I've been hearing that the US committing to Iran means China can now "just take Taiwan". This is a massive oversimplification. Lack of US deterrence would make it from 'incredibly hard' to merely 'very hard'. Amphibious invasion across 100+ miles of open water to terrible landing geography is still the hardest thing any military can do. Taiwan's own $40B asymmetric warfare budget, Japan's deterrence, PLA's inexperience, and economic self-deterrence all matter independently of US missile stocks. Also US deterrence wouldn't be literally 0 here.






Trump praising Allah on Easter?! Threatening to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure by Tuesday?! Come join @NateSilver538 and me for a chat about the political fallout of all of it all at 12pm Eastern today!











France’s central bank sold 129 tonnes of French gold stored in New York, bought equivalent gold in Europe that meets current standards, and recorded a €12.8bn gain due to higher gold prices. All French gold reserves are now held in Paris.























