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Prediction markets like Polymarket let thousands of ordinary people bet on future events—the unemployment rate, say, or when BitCoin will hit an all-time high.Polymarket’s valuation quickly shot to $9 billion, making founder Shayne Coplan the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, with an estimated 11% stake worth $1 billion. His reign was short: twenty days later, he was overtaken as the youngest by the three 22-year-old founders of AI startup Mercor.Read more: https://t.co/yclOPRjHE0 Photo: Guerin Blask ...