How will loans be implemented on June 1st?
How will loans be implemented on June 1st?
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1.6kṀ3018
resolved Jun 1
100%92%
No loans
0.1%Other
1.4%
$20 per market as before
0.4%
Larger (eg M$ 100) loans, only available on longer-term markets (eg 3+ months away from closing)
0.1%
Larger loans proportional to your current portfolio value (eg loan limit = 2% of portfolio)
0.6%
A button you have to click on to opt-in to the loan
1.1%
Loans only available to power users (eg a subscriber, or person with >10 bets made, or >14 days on the site, or through an obscure user setting)
0.1%
Loans scale with the market
0.4%
Same as before but with a higher default loan amount
2%
Some fraction of your bet in every market is paid up front & the rest is a loan. The farther the close date, the lower your up front payment is as a fraction of your bet.
1.9%
Amount of loan scales with the time of question resolution, maybe in increments.
0.0%
Option is only available when the user's balance is M$ 0
0.0%
Daily limit to how many questions you can receive loans for.
Manifold Markets recently removed per-market loans — a feature that let you bet up to M$ 20 in every market through a loan that you pay back when the market resolves. Will we bring loans back by June 1st, and if so, how? I will award partial credit to earlier answers that were close, and the most accurate answer.
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