Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC

Polymarket’s temporary makeover of a K Street bar as “The Situation Room” yielded a few notable differences from other Washington watering holes: more laptops open, more overheard conversations about cryptocurrency, and more screens—most of which were not showing sports.

The New York-based prediction market announced in a March 18 thread on X that it was opening what it called “the world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation,” touting the availability of “live X feeds, flight radar...