Polymarket converted a K Street bar in Washington, D.C. into a three-day prediction-market viewing hub called 'The Situation Room,' promising Bloomberg terminals, live flight radar, and wall-to-wall market screens.
The March 18 launch failed on opening night: power and Wi-Fi outages killed every display. Polymarket recovered by day two, and by Sunday the bar was running CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, CBS, and live Polymarket pages across dozens of screens.
The piece is worth reading in full because the reporter visited in person and the gap between the announced premise and the actual execution reveals something real about how crypto-adjacent companies perform credibility in political spaces.
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