{"id":651344,"date":"2026-09-01T04:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=843832"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:30:51","slug":"an-unserious-company-santos-fires-back-at-kalshi-lifetime-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/an-unserious-company-santos-fires-back-at-kalshi-lifetime-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Unserious Company\u2019: Santos Fires Back at Kalshi Lifetime Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/an-unserious-company-santos-fires-back-at-kalshi-lifetime-ban-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"&#039;An Unserious Company&#039; Santos Fires Back at Kalshi Lifetime Ban\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Kalshi issued its first permanent ban on Monday, barring former U.S. Rep. George Santos and fining him $71,356 over trades on his own State of the Union attendance. The exchange cited his failure to cooperate with its investigation \u2013 a finding its own notice never substantiates, and one the CFTC contradicted in July. Disagreements and [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalshi issued its first permanent ban on Monday, barring former U.S. Rep. George Santos and fining him $71,356 over trades on his own State of the Union attendance. The exchange cited his failure to cooperate with its investigation \u2013 a finding its own notice never substantiates, and one the CFTC contradicted in July. Disagreements and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-651344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}