The Polymarket Bar Is America’s Future

“We’re excited to announce that ‘The Situation Room’ by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C.,” read the announcement posted last Wednesday to Polymarket’s social media. The prediction-market company described the pop-up as “the world’s first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation,” a kind of newfangled sportsbook that instead of showing live sports and betting lines would pipe in information of every kind about the state of the world, from live X feeds to real-time flight radar.