BuzzReads: Gambling On Real Life

What happens when one site turns real-life gambling into a multimillion-dollar industry? Longform by BuzzFeed The Fall Of Intrade And The Business Of Betting On Real Life There’s always been a thin line between investing and gambling, and one firm turned the concept into a multimillion-dollar industry until the government shut it down. How does Intrade’s fate predict the future of how we process the world? Read it on BuzzFeed More Longform Stories We're Reading... Sexual Assault At God's Harvard — The New Republic What I Saw When I Crashed A Wall Street Secret Society — New York The Dark Power of Fraternities — The Atlantic Think You Could Be A Professional Gambler? Here’s What It’s Actually Like — BuzzFeed Love Me Tinder: The Rise Of The Hookup App — GQ Life After Dunk City: Florida Gulf Coast's Next Chance At March Madness — Grantland This Old Man: Life In The Nineties — The New Yorker Inside The Final Days Of "The Best Show" On WFMU — A.V. Club Get more stories on BuzzFeed What's hot on BuzzFeed This BuzzFeed email was sent to dwyld.kwu.yq4b5l8av2dw7@blogger.com | Unsubscribe Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get BuzzFeed in your inbox BuzzFeed, Inc. 200 Fifth Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010