{"id":774,"date":"2024-11-19T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:29:23","slug":"betting-markets-come-for-everything-blake-montgomery-techscape-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/betting-markets-come-for-everything-blake-montgomery-techscape-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBetting markets come for everything\u201d &#8211; Blake Montgomery (Techscape, Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cNow, Kalshi \u2013 riding the wave of those accurate predictions, millions of new users and billions of dollars in trades \u2013 is expanding the range of what its users can bet on. Polymarket is courting political influencers like Nate Silver and ZeroHedge to pose questions that users can bet on. Robinhood and DraftKings plan to throw their hats in the political betting ring, too. Will every public event soon be freighted with billions of dollars in online wagers? Will the Oscars become a new type of speculative financial market? Would you stake your life\u2019s savings on whether egg prices will go up during Trump\u2019s first month in office, a real bet you can make on Kalshi?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/nov\/19\/betting-markets-come-for-everything-and-the-fbi-comes-for-a-betting-market\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/nov\/19\/betting-markets-come-for-everything-and-the-fbi-comes-for-a-betting-market<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow, Kalshi \u2013 riding the wave of those accurate predictions, millions of new users and billions of dollars in trades \u2013 is expanding the range of what its users can bet on. Polymarket is courting political influencers like Nate Silver and ZeroHedge to pose questions that users can bet on. Robinhood and DraftKings plan to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}