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The South Park Skewers’ proposal markets in the latest episode


The animated South Park series began in the 27th period by lifting cryptocurrencies and politics, and its latest phase sets views in apps in the predica market.

In its episode titled Interest, which was released on Wednesday, the characters in South Park elementary school were engaged in a debate about the merits of predicting markets and the role of US regulators in administering them.

Among the bets they made in a cold- or polymarket-type app included guessing lunches at school, the outcome of conflicts between Israel and Palestine and whether a fictional baby was a boy or a girl.

The show also enjoys individuals in charge of the US prophecy markets and regulators, including the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claiming they are “highly professional strategies,” while depicting a character that resembles Donald Trump Jr., Who Join the Polymarket Advisory Board in August.

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The MidHi Bet is featured in the latest phase of South Park. Source: Comedy Central

South Park regularly incorporates cryptocurrency and blockchain themes into its satire. The previous stages featured in US President Donald Trump’s Crypto connectionslabeled bitcoin (Btc) a “fly-by-night ponzi scheme,” and and made people invest in invisible tokens (NFT).

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The 27th period of the show was launched after its owner, Paramount Global, reached A $ 16 million negotiating with Trump for allegations of deceptive editing in an interview. The show continues to joke with the US president.

The federal investigation of the prediction markets seems to be missing in the US

Blashi is engaged in a legal conflict with the CFTC after the US regulator ordered the company to stop offering political event contracts in 2023. A lower court ruled in favor of Kapidi, which motivates a CFTC appeal, whose regulator Moved to drop in May while under the acting Caroline Pham seat.