Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com4wRegulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.Semafor@semafor.comKalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comKalshi to allow trading on borrowed fundsOnly some of the bets will allow margin trading, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies.25131907
Bartek Ogryczak@vartec.bsky.social4wFWIW, RobinHood, which recently added sports betting, very aggressively pushes margin borrowing. To the point where it’s actually hard to see how much cash you have, because the main item is “buying power”, which includes margin borrowing.2144
Bartek Ogryczak@vartec.bsky.social4wThere’s whole “predictions” section, which is basically a clone of Kalshi.111
Henry Fung@henryfung.bsky.social4wRH actually contracts with Kalshi for many markets and tacks on their own fee.17