Polymarket users bet on Elon Musk's fight against Mark Zuckerberg
Date: 2023-08-15 Author: Karina Ziganova Categories: BUSINESS, IN WORLD
On the betting platform Polymarket, the topic of the fight between the owner of X (formerly Twitter) Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is gaining popularity. For one of the positions, users have already contributed more than $380,000.
This rate expires on August 31, 2023. At the same time, Zuckerberg's chances, according to the current forecast, are higher:
One of the bets on a possible fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Source: Polymarket.
Also, users are betting on whether this fight will take place in 2023 at all and whether Zuckerberg will be able to knock out Musk.
What is known about this fight at the time of writing?
At the end of June 2023, Elon Musk said he was ready to meet Zuckerberg "in a cage." Meta's CEO responded by suggesting that the competitor "send geolocation," according to Verge editor Alex Heath.
Speaking to TMZSports, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White noted that both parties to the dispute are more than serious.
In early July 2023, the NYT, citing its sources, stated that negotiations on organizing the fight were almost completed.
However, at the end of the month, Reuters, citing a record of internal negotiations of the Meta management, noted that the chances of a real duel are rather small.
On August 6, Elon Musk rekindled audience interest in the event by announcing that the fight would be broadcast on platform X, with all profits going to help veterans.
In response, Zuckerberg proposed a date for the fight - August 26. But Musk has not commented on this. As a result, the CEO of Meta noted that the owner of X was not serious, and it was time for both of them to move on.
The feud of two heads of tech companies
The rivalry between Musk and Zuckerberg began back in 2014, according to the NYT. The head of Tesla publicly criticized Meta's commercial products, and also expressed doubts about the competence of the company's CEO.
The feud between the two lasted for some time, but after Musk's purchase of the social network Twitter, the conflict only escalated. As a result, the owner of the platform threatened Zuckerberg with a court on charges of plagiarism after the release of the Threads application.
Other high-profile bets on Polymarket
It is not the first time that users of this site place bets on high-profile events. Previously, a totalizator was organized here to find out whether the wreckage of the Titan bathyscaphe could be found, and whether a nuclear war had occurred.
