New York sues Kalshi as illegal gambling operation
News Source : Boing Boing
News Summary
- New York state is the latest to sue Kalshi, accusing the company of being an unlicensed gambling site.
- The state says the platform accepts users aged 18 to 20, below New York's mobile sports betting minimum of 21.
- Also sued recently in New York were Coinbase and Gemini over their own prediction markets, and game publisher and markeplace Valve over lootboxes.
- Americans will lose about $250 billion gambling this year, reports Joey Politano, a number that's up 60% in half a decade.
One of the oddest things about the Trump era is media blithely accepting the euphemism prediction markets to refer to online gambling sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
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