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Hello,

Do you know a website where one can bet on the french political election of 2022 using crypto ?

I was able to bet on the 2017 election using directbet, but this website no longer exists.

Thanks

Directbet would probably be the best this time around with the LN. Sadly it's gone.

What about Fairlay. They have this and Macron still is https://fairlay.com/market/who-will-be-elected-president-of-france-in-2022-1/
I'm not aware of thier politics but Macron is famous which he might again win. If polls and social media will just be my basis for betting it'd be 50-50. It's easy to bet when you are from the country itself since you can read the opinions of your fellow countrymen.

Yes, you can do it in 🔮 Futuur - Predict the Future! 🔮 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288323.0). But their max bet limit isn't so big. And you won't find big ROI on your bets. Still you can try them if you want. Direct link for France politics market: https://futuur.com/q/category/2184/france

Note: Don't create account there if you are a resident of France. Because, they doesn't allow players from France and few other countries for their license provider.

Directbet used to have all politics related events. Going through stake it is possible to see the UK general election under the list. People from that particular country can make close prediction on the result. If is very rare to experience results going out of the prediction. During the Donald Trump vs Hilary Clinton my inner mind suggested to pick Trump, but following different analysis I chosed Hilary. Finally the result is against the Prediction. Anything could happen. Take it as fun and move forward.

I can only suggest Futuur site here, they have a lot of options with regards to Betting not just on politics but almost on everything. Know that Betting is more profitable with the good odds, so analyze before you place your Bet and know if you are dealing with the great site, reading terms of service is also important. We are also in Election next year, I might also look for the bet once the list of candidates are final already.

If I may add also, usually sportsbet will have a lineup in politics. But right now, they don't have for france, but maybe, in the next coming months check their link here - https://sportsbet.io/sports/specials/politics/matches/future, for future listings. Because more than likely, they will include that in their list.
With regards to futuur, naybe bet small if you want to as to be honest, the site's rep is not very active and we don't know the future of futuur in the next coming months. Better wait for it from known and bigger casinos.

Since they are accepting bets, supposedly they allow people from France as well. I'm not certain about that rules but it wasn't looking good.
Nowadays, political betting is quite known to all of us, and therefore, I could expect that some betting platforms will also open for that option (politics betting) since it will also add clients and make a profit for it. But I think it was so early to make a bet and I guess, some platforms aren't open yet for this, maybe early next year.

I haven't used futuur before but I know it is a reputable site on this forum, using it will just be good. But I wonder why all other betting sites both fiat and crypto shouldn't be taken all presidential elections for gambling on their betting sites because it is just atl type of bet many people will always be interested in.

According to what I heard, the first round of the 2022 french presidential election will hold on April 10 2022, that make your statement to be true, not all gambling sites that will support the betting have yet listed it on their betting sites because the day is still far.

What are your favorite betting houses? I am sure if you find one of your preferred event is not covered by them then you may go requesting them then most betting house will work on that to get you such betting. These days external odds providers are in plenty of numbers hence if a betting platform is ready to host an event then everything needed will be done in matter of hours.

I guess you must have account in at least 5 different betting houses so that all your preferred events will be covered. I do bet on freebitco and I just checked but they are not covering any of political events for betting, it seems.

Not many people around the world are interested in French politics,so I guess that the gamblers and sports betting platforms around the world won't bother about this at all.Maybe mostly the French gamblers would want to bet on this event,but I'm not aware about the gambling regulations in France.Perhaps most of them are going to use betting providers located outside France,but I'm not sure that those betting services are going to be interested in offering political betting.
I'm not aware about how popular Macron actually is in France.I used to think that most of the people hate him.There aren't any strong opponents of Macron,unless the woman,who leads the French nationalist party(I forgot her name).

If I'm not mistaken, Nitrogensports also covers political events. Since the French election is about 5 months to go, maybe that's the reason we are not seeing political events at some crypto betting websites for now.

Let's wait for next year. We should have an update on crypto betting websites covering the event.

I remember about the presidential election betting site, which was created by: @OneHash (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=449925), in 2019, the topic he created you can see below.

Topic: European Parliamentary Elections (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5146349.msg51179839#msg51179839)

However, the site has been out of operation for a long time, it says @OneHash is archived, but it has other betting sites which are almost the same as election betting sites, see below.

Topic: 💎ONEHASH.COM💎 900+ BITCOIN CASINO GAMES 🎰 PROVABLY FAIR 🏆 DAILY CONTESTS 💰 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=960158.msg10501585#msg10501585)

There's something you should ask first: to @OneHash.
• how election betting sites can still be used.
• and what about a betting site called: ONEHASH.COM, can it serve bets in elections.

Maybe that's the information I can give you at this time.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but someone from betmoose created a market for the France presidential election. The volume is quite low since it's similar to mutual betting.

https://www.betmoose.com/bet/will-macron-win-france-presidential-election-in-2022-5602#bets-1

You can also create your own if you're planning to bet on a different candidate.

The one that has a huge bet last time was the US election but I don't think the French election would be on-trend this time since the politicians aren't well known. However, I still believe that they would still gain attention from most bettors if huge casinos would promote it. I've tried Nitrogensports last time and they're trusted when it comes to political betting.

France is a big country surely its simple enough and with wide enough appeal a great many companies will offer some simple odds on the outcome.   Quite surprised if thats not the case, somehow a football match has more people wanting to bet on it then the 6 year term of a central country's president.
For what its worth I think Macron has a good chance of losing this one, he has lost the grip of popular opinion and seems to be struggling in slight desperation to regain the perception of a great leader again.   But also is there any viable opposition.

I found crypto support for the 2022 brazilian presidential election.

https://www.betonline.ag/sportsbook/futures-and-props/politics-futures/2022-brazilian-general-election

The french election appears to lack support from crypto gambling sites, for whatever reason.

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https://i.ibb.co/xFw5Mgf/france-odds.jpg

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/european-politics/french-politics/next-french-president

Above is an overview of large books offering odds for france's 2022 election.

Crypto support appears to be conspicuously absent.

You can use fortune jack or 1xbit both websites are quite good.

You can also consider using stake or sportsbet, I haven't used stake yet but i've seen some complaints of users (high rollers) regarding the website that their bets weren't cleared at the right time and had to face delay, where once user lost more than 8,000 usd, rolling over 500,000$ total.

I think people already gave you a lot of options to choose from, so I want to hear from you if you don't mind, since you're looking for this you definitely know something that we don't, it would be nice if you share your thoughts with us about those elections, we may consider following your lead.

It would be good if he would shared up but I don't see that he would but it will be great if he does but knowing on making out bets then it would be worth on listening up someone specially to those who had been looking on this market.

Usually I don't really make out best for presidential because everything could really be that manipulated if they wanted too even though there are lots of similar lines or markets in the
past but I cant really just trust it.

Sites are given above and theres no need to repeat on the same thing.

OneHash might offer this one but the last time I visited the site, they are now purely casino betting websites. What happened to them?

I'm also Freebitco.in - on their betting part, will also cover that event.

Not sure if popular sportsbooks such as Stake, Sportsbet, Nitrogen will open a line of betting to that. French Presidential election might have a big betting market but can't be compare to US Presidential election where most crypto-betting sites, cover the event.

It's just that I betted on the last French election using the now closed service "directbet".

The bet was : "Next French president will be a man ?". Yes : 19%. No : (I don't remember).

I waited until 2 weeks before the election, because anything could happend, and betted almost all my bitcoins on the fact that the next french president would be a man.

Only Marine Lepen could have won as a women, but... she could'nt because the french presidential election works on 2 rounds, she might have won the first, but there were  no way she could win the second round. And I think it's still the case today, but it's better to wait until 2 weeks before the election because anything could happen.

(I precise that I'm French and I'm following the campaigns for this election)

would be nice if FTX added more options for elections on their website
I know they did it for US elections last time and have a contract right now for the brazilian election

let's see, maybe they add more in the future

What site is this? I’m also looking for other option to place bet in my country for next year election. Looks like other countries are also having an election next year, this could be our time to vote the right people. Though unlike the US election, this might not hit the main stream so very limited to see the odds about election even in France.

Is it too early to bet on this event? I would not do it now, even if I found an offer with good odds - freezing my money for 5 months is a very dubious idea. Plus, over these 5 months, a lot can change and it turns out that those good odds were not good at all. The situation and the mood of the public is changing quickly now, who knows how much people will go berserk from lockdowns/coronavirus and what this can lead to.

the big exchange https://ftx.com/
though as far as I know France presidential elections are not available there

but they have it available for betting on the results of Brazilian elections next year (october 2022) and they had it for Trump, Biden and some others on the US last elections.

It is expectedly hard to look for odds on this one since politics and other events outside sports are seldom the stuff to bet on. But I think you can find one if you are really interested for it and won't mind if you are going to place non-crypto bets.

But I recommend you to drop by https://futuur.com/ to check if it is there. The site offers almost all kinds of events to bet on. And if you cannot find it, I remember that the site is also open to suggestions from its users. I myself used the platform and even made a suggestion for betting. I was surprised that they responded to me and indeed opened a betting for it.

So if you cannot find it under politics in futuur, just contact them and suggest that it be added and perhaps they will do it.

Compared to the situation we had in 2020 (POTUS elections, in which Biden won), there is not much interest in gambling circles for the two important elections in 2022 - France and Brazil. Almost every sportsbook was offering bids on the 2020 POTUS elections. However, I had to try quite a bit to find sites that offer bidding on French and Brazilian elections. So far, I have only found Skybet among my favorite sites. And for the Brazilian election, I am yet to find a site which offer bidding. It is still a bit early, and the situation may change in the coming months.

Betting sites should not think like that, they can just make the betting seen and available after each user are visiting their site, this will help many bettors to know about it, I think people get interest in betting it. Also I think many betting sites may not want to be involve thinking it is politics, but is not.

One thing I have known is that the betting about presidential election to a country like Brazil are more limited to Brazil. This is what I am saying, in my country, you can see many online local betting sites having bet of the presidential election of the president in my country during the election, I do not see such on international betting sites, this can go for countries like Brazil too.

I think Skybet is not accepting crypto, that can not make me make use of the site, I will also prefer betting sites that are on this forum.

interesting, haven't heard of Skybet before
will look into it

as I mentioned, the exchange FTX offers future contracts where you can long if the actual president will get reelected or kicked out

since they did it for the US and now for Brazil I think they may add more countries and events in the future.

Fuutur is also a great option, with different dynamics

I think it's been a year or two since they've focused in being a full casino. I also have seen them having this type of betting about politics and as well as other odd matches to bet for.

I haven't seen the reason of their removal for their bookie.

Brazil is a big enough country that even if they only take bets from their own people it would be enough to justify the book on the presidential election but I dont speak Portuguese so I doubt I would be putting even a small bet on that.   At least with the French election you have the whole EU aspect where people from across Europe may have some opinion and news to go on and will bet, I would expect this available in every major language and offered internationally.

I recently placed a bet on stake, sports bet to be specific and it's the only feature of the website that i like, Odds and prices of the matches were updated quite quickly.

I'm sure there were bettings on Trump and biden election on stake and same will happen with french elections no doubt about it.

Is it started right now?
Well, I think that president election betting is a case that become favorite betting for many people. Moreover the chance to win may be bigger moreover if we really know the track record and also the condition of the president candidates and also the party.

Besides FTX, I ever read about this betting Skybet.'You may take some reviews and analysis of  this.

I have read several reviews about this. They really say its an all around site that could cater your needs. It's really good to know that there are sites that welcome betting in politics because we all know that politics is a chaotic and dirty place which is why most people and businesses do not want to get involved with it. Perhaps because of the fear of getting a backslash and other some sort of negative feedbacks. So it's quite surprising to read that a website offers betting in politics because what I usually see are sites that offer betting in sports. Maybe it's really time to discover new things.

I agree with you that OP should read the terms of service first. Most people fail to do this and this is where the trouble starts to resurface. The common mistake of people engaging in betting is not reading the policy. That is why there are times that they aren't aware they are already violating the terms of service of the company. In some points, some are even aren't aware they are taking advantage of the site with its policies. Hence, when they try to file a complaint, the issue won't be addressed because they gave their consent to agree with whatever is written on the terms of service. To everyone who are planning to bet on political betting for the next year's election, most especially to the newbies, please take note of this. This thing might come a little to no importance, but trust me, this is significant before doing an account in a betting site.

not sure if most of Brazilians would have the interest to learn the tech to bet on predential elections outcomes, though
but could be

I'm sure you can find
1. translated news on the time of the election, like when bolsonaro was stabbed and when he missed the debates on purpose
2. brazilian you trust and who speak english

but totally get your point too.