Ikem

Romans 8:1 | 💻📈📉 | Igbo 🇳🇬 | I'm getting married this weekend | Family guy | Hala Madrid

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

In 2025,

God anointed me and I did great things.

He thoroughly furnished me with wisdom and power.

And gave me resources to do everything He put in my heart.

[busayo @AmoweO]

Get innnn jooh 2-2

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Mark Zuckerberg is bankrupting a $22 billion startup because they refused to sell to him.

The company is Kalshi.

They run the largest prediction market in the US. Users bet real money on real-world outcomes.

Last year, prediction markets did $28 billion in monthly volume across the industry.

This month, they did $220 BILLION.

The sector literally 8x'd in a single year.

Bernstein now projects the entire prediction market industry will hit $1 TRILLION by 2030.

Zuckerberg saw the growth curve coming. Last year, when Kalshi was valued at only $2 billion, he sat down with founder and CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss buying the entire company.

Mansour said no.

Kalshi went on to raise at $11 billion in December. Then $22 billion in March. It is now pursuing a $40 billion round and openly weighing an IPO.

Zuckerberg's response:

He walked back to Meta headquarters, took every piece of information he learned in that meeting, and directed a small internal team to build a Kalshi clone from the ground up.

Meta's version is called Arena. It uses Llama to generate the questions. Every one of Meta's 3.5 billion daily users will get access.

And here's where the plan gets ruthless...

Meta is deliberately launching with play money. That single decision lets Zuckerberg dodge every gambling regulator on Earth while he trains billions of users to bet on prediction markets.

Meanwhile Kalshi is spending millions fighting state gambling laws, the CFTC, an Illinois sports tax, a Minnesota felony statute, and the Department of Justice.

Kalshi is the crash test dummy. Meta is the getaway driver.

The moment the regulatory war is settled, Zuckerberg flips the switch. Arena becomes a real-money market, and 3.5 billion users are already trained to use it. Kalshi's user base of a few million cannot compete.

This is the exact playbook Meta ran on Snapchat in 2016 when Instagram Stories launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on TikTok in 2020 when Reels launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on Twitter in 2023 when Threads launched.

The FTC took Meta to court over this pattern last year and called it "buy or bury." The judge sided with Meta. So the playbook is legally protected.

Tarek Mansour walked into a meeting with the most predatory copycat in tech history and gave him the entire pitch deck for the fastest growing product in Silicon Valley.

Six months later, Zuckerberg is executing on that intel while Mansour is stuck defending his company in courts across America.

Kalshi survived Zuckerberg's offer. But it probably will not survive Zuckerberg's clone.

Meta ended Q1 with $81 billion in cash. That is enough to buy every prediction market company on Earth six times over. Zuckerberg is choosing to STEAL them instead because he can, and because the courts already gave him permission.

The next 12 months will decide whether Kalshi becomes a $50 billion IPO or a cautionary tale about what happens when a founder says no to Meta.

What do you think?

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@MichaelTradesnq Oh I see it now

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@aw_trades_ Yeahh. I can't wait.

Please can you check your dm 🙏

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

Nobody bribes to serve!

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@aw_trades_ I can imagine. It's what I really need, but it's been over a year of hunting with no success

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@Hitee_ Same here 💯

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

“Before Tinubu came into power we were already having financial problems. Some people hated his policies and started creating problem and made the Naira to fall. Then we prayed. If not for our prayers, 1dollar will have been 10,000 naira.”

-Pastor Adeboye

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@nuttybartrading Yesss 💪🥳🥳

[Toluwani @gabe_teee]

People are not even saying the major thing about this video.
Pastor Adeboye went to the US to convince the US government that Tinubu is doing well and to also show subtle support that there is no Christian Genocide because at least he's a pastor of a very big church.
We are overlooking the purpose of the video.

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

Okay so I couldn’t bare to finish this video, otherwise it would mess up my emotions so badly…

Unfortunately, this is not something I can defend; never something I can support.
I utterly flabbergasted & dumbfounded.
Defending Tinubu and excusing him from all that’s happening is not what I expect from anyone at all.

Sincerely I don’t know what to say.

[Babatunde Gbadamosi @BOGbadams]

Now, there can be no further doubt.

[Oluwaseun @officialtelz]

Imagine saying this to the face of Rev Dachomo who buries hundreds of his church and community member weekly

We are so evil in this part of the world.

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

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[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@nitroxn_capital @quantedOptions Looking like stuff from the quantdata guys 🔥

[Ikem @GraceStatusOK]

@BrettSimba Brett, Pick me in Jesus' name, Amen 🙏😩

[Abiodun @bin_gbada]

Buhari borrowed $1 billion loan to fund the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

That loan was backed by a pledge of 67,000 barrels of crude oil per day & repayment started in 2024, with maturity in June 2029.

What this means is that we are using crude oil to repay loan for a non-functional refinery till 2029.

- Where’s Buhari today?
- Where’s Port Harcourt refinery?