Taylor Mathis Releases Video Explaining Scandal That Has Rocked Her World

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Oct/26/2024

  • Taylor Mathis releases video explaining her side of this past week's crypto scandal.

  • Not everybody is buying Taylor's story.

  • Manifold all in on sweepstakes betting market amidst crackdown.

  • Illinois halts bets involving injured NFL players and more in response to letter from the league. 

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Taylor Mathis Releases Video Explaining Scandal That Has Rocked Her World

Today's "It" girl, Taylor Mathis, otherwise known as the "Walking Bets Girl" is throwing it all out there.

Here's a recap of what has transpired over this past week, the cliff notes version:

  • Mathis, who works on behalf of DraftKings as a sports influencer, reportedly created a $TAYLOR token based off her likeness.
  • Reportedly, Mathis agreed to promote it in exchange for 20 million tokens, or two percent of its total supply.
  • Per Awful Announcing, she began promoting it on her X account (which has more than 200,000 followers) last week, leading to it reaching a $6 million market cap Saturday (which would have her stake worth an estimated $120,000).
  • Mathis than reportedly went on to sell her stake for 95 SOL (another cryptocurrency, with 95 tokens currently worth just over $16,000). She then sent messages saying she didn’t want to be involved in $TAYLOR any more.
  • After going on X to announce that the crypto wasn’t for her and that she would donate the money to charity, her account then bought 34 million $TAYLOR tokens at a new low price of $9,000 (giving her almost 1.5 times her initial stake and a $7,000 profit), and she promoted that she was back in on the coin.
  • Folks began questioning if she was illegally manipulating the market, and to them tagging DraftKings.
  • Taylor locked her Twitter account then reemerged late Friday declaring this to be the worst time of her life and that she was contemplating committing suicide.

During the early morning hours of Saturday, Mathis released the following video in hopes of clearing the air.

Mathis said she wishes to be transparent and claims someone - she has no idea who - made a coin in her likeness without her consent.

"I had no affiliation to this."

It wouldn't be Twitter without the haters and trolls.  They came out in full force following the release of Taylor's video.

"So the folks that genuinely believed/trusted you and poured some money into that coin…. Just gets fucked over? Is there like a way to possibly refund the fans that trusted you and put money in the coin?"

"So somebody made something without your knowledge and instead of immediately going after them and telling ppl don’t buy it. You get on board buy it yourself then sell it and realize you can’t do that so you buy it back and then donate it to try and clean up a mess u no make!?!?"

Others simply encouraged Mathis to "step away" and "take a break".

That might not be good for sites like Gambling911.com and Awful Announcing, with the amount of traffic this is producing.  But it probably is the right thing to do Taylor.... at least for the weekend.

Gambling News

Manifold Enters Controversial Sweepstakes Gambling Market Amidst Crackdown

Yes, if you are a regular reader this is yet another reminder. But, you’d be surprised how many of our existing users and people who’ve heard of us still don’t realise Manifold now has withdrawals. There are many instances on Twitter where people comment Manifold is just play money. We need your help to let people know.
It’s competition time!

To celebrate the upcoming US election and the launch of our new sweepstakes markets, Manifold is hosting a prediction tournament with prizes of 1600 sweepcash up for grabs!

After the election, the top 3 sweepstakes traders on the Leaderboard in the categories of both Volume and Profit (across all topics) will earn the following prizes:

    First place: 500 sweepcash

    Second place: 200 sweepcash

    Third place: 100 sweepcash

The tournament will run until a random time on Nov 8th (Pacific Time), after which we will see who is at the top of the leaderboard.

Gambling News

Illinois Halts Certain Bet Types

Illinois Gaming Board Administrator Marcus Fruchter authorized a temporary suspension on NFL bets that involve wagering on injuries, player conduct, officiating assignments and negative-outcome predetermined events in anygame Thursday. The move came in response to a request filed by the NFL earlier this month.

RULE 1900.1130 REQUEST TO PROHIBIT AND TEMPORARY
SUSPENSION OF WAGERING ON INJURIES, OFFICIATING RELATED
PLAYER CONDUCT, AND PRE-DETERMINED EVENTS IN ANY
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE GAME (Read the letter here)

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