Polymarket faces backlash over $3.8M Strategy Bitcoin-sale bet settlement rules

Polymarket drew criticism after traders said it revised the settlement standard for a live market asking whether Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) would sell any Bitcoin by May 31. Strategy disclosed on June 1 that it had sold Bitcoin during the prior week, but Polymarket ruled the outcome based on a disclosure cutoff, affecting bets tied to 1,838 accounts and $3.8 million. One trader, Hunter Guo, said he lost an expected gain of about $35,000 after buying thousands of “Yes” contracts shortly before the ruling.