Kalshi Down Part of Saturday Afternoon
The online prediction website Kalshi was down during the 3 pm ET hour and ahead of critical college football games. That outage continued through the 4 pm ET hour with thousands of anxious traders coming to the Gambling911.com website to find the latest. The site returned shortly after 4:30 pm ET but quickly went down again but was accessible thereafter for many. It was not immediately clear if the site was undergoing maintenance, dealing with an internal outage, or something far more nefarious.
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It's easy to see just how big Kalshi has become in recent months.
Dozens of folks took to X (Twitter) complaining they were unable to trade.
"Wrong time for Kalashi to crash," one person tweeted.
The Ole Miss vs. Georgia game was among the most wagered on of the day.
In fact, Kalshi had this one as their most bet on of the college football slate Saturday.
Those coming to the site were greeted by a spinning circle around the Kalshi logo.
No word yet on what caused the site to crash for approximately two hours.
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