>Lenders have said they’re worried they’d be left on the hook if a borrower lost money on a digital currency bet and couldn’t repay. Weird, isn't the whole poi

>Lenders have said they’re worried they’d be left on the hook if a borrower lost money on a digital currency bet and couldn’t repay. Weird, isn't the whole point of setting a credit limit that you assess how much risk a given person can sustain? Seems to me like banks want to hand out high credit limits to entire overspending, under the assumption they can make their money back twice - through reposession + obscenely high APRs in the 25%+ range. Meanwhile, every time I go to a casino ATM I see prominent signage on how to use one's credit card to obtain casino credit. They don't block these transactions, they just factor the existence into the calculations for a credit line...