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Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs. Should we worry that it’s back?
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500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs. Should we worry that it’s back?