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Trump Whale Identified as French Trader

October 24, 2024 at 10:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A trader who spent more than $45 million on Polymarket bets that Donald Trump will win the upcoming US presidential election has been identified as a French national, following an investigation by the cryptocurrency-based prediction markets platform,” Bloomberg reports.

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