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by foobar2020 3945 days ago
The paradox does not depend on the fairness of the coin.

A real coin toss is, say, at least 25% probability for heads and at least 25% probability for tails. Therefore you can multiply the winnings by 4 and not by 2, which will give you a divergent series even with a real, "unfair" coin.