{"id":306,"date":"2026-01-29T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/?p=306"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:30:52","slug":"vitalik-buterin-makes-70000-on-polymarket-using-anti-irrationality-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/vitalik-buterin-makes-70000-on-polymarket-using-anti-irrationality-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Makes $70,000 on Polymarket Using Anti-Irrationality Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" data-id=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1153-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1153-2.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1153-2-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin earned roughly $70,000 last year on Polymarket with a $440,000 stake by employing an \u201canti-insanity mode\u201d strategy. He focuses on markets driven by hype or extreme irrationality, betting against unlikely outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buterin highlighted politics and technology as his main targets, citing examples like bets on Donald Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize or the US dollar collapsing to zero within a year. He explained that markets dominated by extreme predictions often present the clearest opportunities for disciplined traders taking the opposite position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not his first success with prediction markets; he made about $58,000 from US election bets in 2020, praising such platforms as tools for collective truth-seeking and open participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polymarket remains active but faces competition. As of December 2025, it held 41% of open interest behind Kalshi\u2019s 42%, with sports, politics, and crypto each exceeding $1.2 billion in trading volume. Culture saw the fastest growth, up 687% in six months, though most trading is concentrated among a small number of wallets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin earned roughly $70,000 last year on Polymarket with a $440,000 stake by employing an \u201canti-insanity mode\u201d strategy. He focuses on markets driven&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}