Trevor Noah froze onstage, stared into the camera, and started saying “potato” like a man sending a coded signal. Viewers laughed—then heard him shout out a username and Polymarket, a crypto betting site. Suddenly, it didn’t feel like just a joke. Was this a prank, a paid plug, or an open admission of insid… Continues… What began as a surreal, throwaway gag quickly became a referendum on the uneasy marriage between entertainment, crypto, and the law. By invoking Polymarket and hinting that someone had “just made a ton of money,” Noah stepped directly into a live debate about prediction markets,...
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