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Excited to be joining @KalshiEco I first discovered prediction markets over a year ago and was immediately hooked. This began a year-long obsession where I compulsively followed markets, trying to find edge and learning what was behind price movements. As an accountant for my day job, and a poker/horse racing player on the side - I was already obsessed with numbers and probabilities which made these markets feel like home. The allure of prediction markets was clear: anyone could become an expert in a domain and be rewarded handsomely. What's more, almost every other avenue currently available to consumers is designed to set you up for failure. Sportsbooks are nearly unbeatable because of the house edge you're competing against and they'll limit you if you're actually a winning player. If you're trying to outperform the stock market, you'll be competing against incredibly sophisticated, well-capitalized institutional players and are more likely to lose money than outperform. Prediction markets like Kalshi are still in their infancy, which means clever, everyday people who develop expertise in a niche can be rewarded monetarily. Just listen to a couple of the interviews I've done with top Kalshi traders who have made over six figures predicting anything from Rotten Tomatoes movie scores and Spotify song rankings to the exact words someone will say in a speech. Kalshi doesn't ban profitable traders; they celebrate them for making markets more efficient. They use the wisdom of markets to reveal clear, data-driven probabilities on events shaping the world. We live in an era of divisiveness. It’s hard to know the truth with biased pundits on mainstream television and misinformation rampant on social media. Media incentives have shifted toward whatever gets clicks and plays to viewers’ existing beliefs. Kalshi offers a new way forward: achieving truth through free markets. Who do you trust more? Someone with an opinion or someone confident enough to put money behind it? I believe prediction markets have the potential to reshape media and the way people understand the world. I couldn’t be more excited to play a part in that.

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