• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    17 hours ago

    That’s actually brilliant to bet against yourself.

    If you loose the election, you win $$.

    If you win the election, you loose some $$ short term, but then get it back with all the envelops of cash and future inside trading.

  • Almacca@aussie.zone
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    13 hours ago

    Calling it a ‘prediction’ market doesn’t make it any less a gambling site at best, and a vehicle for insider trading at worst. They need to be made illegal.

    (Edit to fix typos)

  • KelvarCherry [They/Them]@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    One of the other traders was Virginia independent Mark Moran, who is running for Senate. Kalshi said Moran bet in October that he would announce a political run, and then publicly launched his campaign in January.

    In an interview with CNN, Moran said the trades were a stunt so that a “longshot” candidate like himself could draw attention to “illegal gambling” happening on prediction sites.

    Yeah I support this guy’s use. Really, it’s the system that is the problem; not the individual politicians. Besides, the President of the USA has done far worse.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    The only time I’d be okay with this is if they are betting in a way that they can’t directly influence.

    Bet you lose? Not okay. Bet you do something on a date, or at all? Not okay. Bet you win? That seems fine to me.