D.C. residents, you’ve been warned.
Online betting platforms have users betting on nuclear war — and now, apparently, they’ll be able to bet on humanity’s destruction in person.
Prediction market site Polymarket announced on social media yesterday that its bar The Situation Room will open in Washington, D.C., tomorrow.
Polymarket calls it “the world’s first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation,” referencing the meme of looking at the news or, for bettors, the market.
In a follow-up post, Polymarket stated, “Imagine a sports bar… but just for situation monitoring — live X feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket screens.” The concept artwork features not just a bar with screens on the walls, as is typical of any sports bar, but also additional screens on columns and what appears to be a globe in the center of the room (it seems to be a screen, like a mini-Vegas Sphere).
As Mashable has reported, online gambling is everywhere now. The wave that began with sports betting has exploded into wagering money on basically everything — including the aforementioned nuclear fallout, but also which movie will win Best Picture, how many times Elon Musk will post on X in a given month, and more.
Given the gambling boom, it makes sense that Polymarket is capitalizing on it and turning it into an IRL experience. And it’s not the first; in February, Polymarket opened a free grocery store in New York City for five days.
Who wants to bet on how odd that bar will smell?