Will the trading-fee delay be eliminated?
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At the moment, trading fees are not payed out until the market resolves. This is good: it incentivizes creators to actually resolve their markets! On the other hand, it means that (absent the daily free M$100), creation of even a popular market means you lose M$100 until market resolution time. This makes creation of long-lived markets much more expensive than creation of short-lived ones, particularly in the absence of the M$100 creation subsidy. I suspect it also has a psychological effect in the /presence/ of the creation subsidy: a "noise" market gives me an immediate M$100, whereas a real market is guaranteed not to pay out for a long time. Even having a small chance of a decent short-term payout on market creation might have an outsized psychological effect. This question resolves YES if in one month (at close time), there is a mechanism for a market creator to be payed without the market resolving. It will resolve YES even if this mechanism is only partial (like "you get 50% up front and 50% upon resolve"), or if the mechanism requires some explicit intervention on the part of traders or the market creator.
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bought Ṁ50 of NO
"This makes creation of long-lived markets much more expensive than creation of short-lived ones" I think this is a feature, not a bug. Users want more short-term markets relative to long-term ones (and it's harder to think of good short-term questions).
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Again, a nominal bet to indicate that I'm serious about considering this a good idea.

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