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Online bettors mint money on Elon Musk's misses

nbcnews | 2026-01-26 16:39 | 149 views

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nbcnews 2026-01-26 16:40

David Bensoussan, a Polymarket user whose account is No. 51 on the site’s all-time profits leaderboard (what many call a “whale” for their sizable bets), has put down bets on 12 prediction markets related to Elon Musk or Tesla and has made more than $36,000 on bets that have reached a resolution as of Friday.

jesterOC 2026-01-26 18:44

He’s smart enough to bet on reality versus other people‘s delusions. People who short Tesla stock are essentially betting on other people’s delusions to fail and as history is shown, musk is good at keeping that delusion alive.

weaz-am-i 2026-01-26 21:16

I'd have to bet that he stays on. ~~Nothing matches reality.~~ Correction, reality doesnt make sense. The only way hes out is if there's criminal investigation into doge for stealing data. SpaceX for bribing the administration for the moon mission billions. Or tesla for the continuous pump and dump and lies. None of that will happen with this administration.

PMoonbeam 2026-01-27 02:35

It's a tax on hope.

Working-Business-153 2026-01-27 22:26

you can safely bet that any promise Musk makes will be at least delayed, if not an outright lie, the reality is that lying costs the guy nothing and stands to profit him billions so...

Embarrassed-Block-51 2026-01-27 23:54

How do people make bets on musks failures. Do they set a date, if musk doesn't by x date than people who took the bet pay up. I could have made thousands by now if I knew how to do this.

lowrcaseletters 2026-01-28 04:47

NBC News on this subreddit? That is surprising and awesome.

Aardappelhuree 2026-01-28 06:33

Read the article! Polymarket

whorificustotalus 2026-01-29 16:41

They probably think this is the official tesla sub, lol.

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