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Chu

American  
[choo] / tʃu /

noun

  1. a river in SE Kazakhstan, flowing NE from the Tian Shan, near the Kyrgyz border, into the desert. 700 miles (1,126 km) long.


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“Kalshi users learned the hard way that ‘Will Khamenei leave office?’ and ‘Will Khamenei die?’ are two completely different bets — even though, in the real world, the answer turned out to be the same,” Nelson Chu, chief executive of Percent, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch

Chu said that the distinction between the Kalshi and Polymarket Khamenei markets came down to Kalshi’s position as a CFTC-regulated exchange, which prohibits it from providing betting markets tied to assassinations.

From MarketWatch

“However, in doing so, they enraged every trader on their platform who thought they’d won. Polymarket had no such constraints because they operate offshore, outside U.S. jurisdiction, and paid out over half a billion dollars in war-adjacent bets,” Chu told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch

“When the Eaton fire tore through my district, so many families were forced into an impossible choice,” Chu said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times

Chu’s office visited an animal shelter in the wake of the Eaton fire and encountered a gray cat with severe burns on its face and all four legs.

From Los Angeles Times