Nobel Peace Prize | Crypto

Data from Polymarket showed one user with a recently opened account made more than $30,000 exclusively through bets on the peace prize winner. Norwegian officials have reportedly launched an investigation into prediction platforms’ bets on 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado as potential espionage. According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the entity that assists the Nobel Committee in selecting the peace prize recipient, began investigating reports that bets on the prediction platform Polymarket surged in the hours before the announcement of Machado as the winner. Officials are reportedly still in the process of investigating whether someone “managed to steal information and made a lot of money from it,” according to the institute’s director, Kristian Berg Harpviken.  Read more

The Venezuelan opposition leader has championed Bitcoin as a lifeline for individuals trying to protect their wealth or attempting to flee the country. María Corina Machado, a human rights activist and political opposition leader in Venezuela who has called Bitcoin a “lifeline” for Venezuelans, received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy in the South American country. Machado praised Bitcoin (BTC) as a pro-freedom technology in a 2024 interview with Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Human Rights Foundation. She said: The only way to help Venezuela’s poorest is by ensuring property rights, low inflation, equal access to opportunity, and government,” she said.  Read more