Kalshi

“There's nothing better about working at Flock or X or Kalshi or Palantir”

“For every person making a "slightly stupid bet" there's another person who is making a "slightly smart bet"”

“They don't make more money out of losers than they do out of winners”

“They have different predatory incentives, benefitting from encouraging people to make a large number of slightly stupid bets”

“If anything I think kalshi is more clearly presented as "a bet" vs "the truth"”

“Kalshi has no loophole. The Ninth Circuit ruled on exactly this last week.”

“It's a great way for average person to get share in the profits of giant corporations.”

“Kalshi became an obvious regulatory dodge (including adding sports and really leaning into the gambling demographic)”

“I really don’t understand how these markets survive a competent DOJ considering the rate they’re having to ban people for “insider trading”.”

“They basically did an Uber on the law, completely ignoring how it had long been interpreted and demanding someone stop them.”

“I encourage you to go to the "machine" (Polymarket, Kalshi) to take position”

“Their right to pillage the public and create a new generation of addicts is more important than what people want or what's good for them.”

“stop the Kalshi executives, who are located in New York, from flagrantly violating the sports gambling laws of New York”

“these prediction markets are ruining so many people's lives”

“Making them markets also frees them to manipulate and trade against their users covertly in ways that cannot be detected”

“They were already illegal! Why be careful, they know they’ve got the social trend and the regulatory bodies on their sides.”

“somewhat concerning from a 'creating adverse incentives' perspective”

“Kalshi et al are obviously gambling, and yet somehow all the laws about gambling have been politely forgotten by law enforcement.”

“Legally, Kalshi is not gambling as of the current legislation.”

“This greatly changes (improves) the incentives for the house”

“Kalshi is only your broker and exchange, so dealing with them is materially less risky in my mind.”

“I can’t imagine that the extreme accessibility and the typical dark patterns deployed by every popular app won’t eventually end badly.”

“I don't think there is any question about where on the Venn diagram sites like Kalshi and Polymarket belong.”

“I look at the markets because it's information”

“I'm actually a very active Kalshi user, but I cannot see how anyone can seriously argue that it's not sports betting”

“Despite the headlines, Kalshi and Polymarket are mainly just sportsbooks.”

“a glance at polymarket or kalshi is often enough to know whether something is actually happening”

“It's clear that Polymarket and Kalshi host these markets to serve bettors, not to produce useful information.”

“I hope they stay as open and generous as they are now with programmatic access”

“theyre exchanges - zero sum between traders, not house vs player”

“they actually make betting fair, which was impossible before”

“there's real edge for anyone who bothers to run even a basic ensemble model”

“Kalshi at least has KYC and CFTC oversight which theoretically adds an enforcement layer”

“Kalshi won the CFTC case and now congress wants to legislate around it.”

“Having them all in one place (or two; kalshi and polymarket) makes life much simpler.”

“I find these markets incredibly useful in day to day life”

“the whole concept of betting on real world events is ludicrous to begin with”

“Kalshi markets provide a high-frequency, continuously updated, distributionally rich benchmark that is valuable to both researchers and policymakers.”

“occasionally tried checking Polymarket and Kalshi to get an idea of the general political/cultural/technological consensus”

“I'm not a fan of the betting side of prediction markets like Kalshi or Polymarket”