Category: Business

Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up

It’s hard to quantify the Swiftie demographic’s impact on these bets, but preseason, WIRED reached out to several sportsbooks including BetRivers, DraftKings, FanDuel and Rivalry, which said the Taylor Swift effect was real, and expected it would continue to affect their industry this season. Tim Whitehead, sportsbook head at BetRivers, put it succinctly. “So long […]

The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of the planet” following his return to the White House. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump established a “working group on digital asset markets,” which will be responsible for weighing the possibility of the US […]

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