Why WWFTX uses cryptocurrency (and cares about decentralization)

WWFTX is a predictions market site for pro wrestling. We provide data analysis and data analytics for pro wrestling, a sport that is under-examined. You can think of us as the 538 of pro wrestling. (I am the Nate Silver of wrasslin', if you will.) What does this have to do with cryptocurrency? A lot, actually. There are the clear benefits of 24/7 trading that cryptocurrency enables that you won't get with previous financial infrastructure rails.

The biggest reason we use cryptocurrency though, is because we know we have a huge target on our backs. Eventually Linda McMahon will come to get us. Who is Linda McMahon, you ask? She is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), wife of Vince McMahon, former US Senate candidate, former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and current U.S. Education Secretary under President Trump. U.S. Education Secretary is one of the most powerful roles in the federal government, on par with Defense, State, Treasury, Justice, Commerce, Labor, Interior, Energy, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, and Transportation. This is a resume worthy of a Robert Caro biography. Who knows what kind of new powers she will acquire during her reign?

As the education industrial complex inexorably grows, Secretary McMahon will use her powers to crush us freedom loving, crypto gamblers. Her appetite for power knows no limits. When she realizes we are using cutting edge technology to determine the outcomes of pro wrestling, she will surely use her powers against us. Our only hope to keep this going is to remain in the shadows and build a resilient system. This means staying underground, being decentralized, and keeping our markets open using permissionless technology.

Crypto wagering on pro wrestling is freedom. We take your privacy seriously. We will never, ever share your information with Secretary McMahon.