Prediction Markets + Market Predictions = Collective Forecasting That Pays Off
Dear readers,
Somebody did set up a website making a fool of me. Searching who is behind this turned out the IP address of the NewsFutures server —but Emile Servan-Schreiber is as innocent as a lamb because this data was in fact fudged by the attacker (so as to wrongly put the blame on NewsFutures). It might well be the same thing for the IP that connected to comment here.
Let’s turn this regrettable incident into something positive. Let’s take this opportunity to turn things around.
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Interested to wonder who it was that pulled the site once you published your piece?
What happened is that the company that was falsely accused sent a “cease and desist” to some Internet operators (I got the copies of those e-mails sent out), and it is at that point that the castle of cards collapsed.