{"id":66138,"date":"2026-02-12T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/another-way-to-gamble-money-booming-prediction-markets-prompt-confusion-and-concern\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:10:23","slug":"another-way-to-gamble-money-booming-prediction-markets-prompt-confusion-and-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/another-way-to-gamble-money-booming-prediction-markets-prompt-confusion-and-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Another way to gamble money\u2019: booming prediction markets prompt confusion and concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket and Kalshi are less regulated than betting sites, but users can win or lose large sums on the platforms<\/p>\n<p>Yadin Eldar, 21, has been betting on prediction markets since 2019. His friends think he\u2019s \u201ccrazy\u201d, he said. But the craze surrounding these platforms is rapidly gathering steam.<\/p>\n<p>Users can bet on virtually anything, from the outcome of Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/super-bowl\">Super Bowl<\/a> to whether the US will invade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/greenland\">Greenland<\/a>, every second of every day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-online-gambling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymarket and Kalshi are less regulated than betting sites, but users can win or lose large sums on the platforms Yadin Eldar, 21, has been betting on prediction markets since 2019. His friends think he\u2019s \u201ccrazy\u201d, he said. But the craze surrounding these platforms is rapidly gathering steam. Users can bet on virtually anything, from &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Another way to gamble money\u2019: booming prediction markets prompt confusion and concern\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/another-way-to-gamble-money-booming-prediction-markets-prompt-confusion-and-concern\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Another way to gamble money\u2019: booming prediction markets prompt confusion and concern\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}