• JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    7 hours ago

    But why would anyone buy shares after an event resolved? You’d expect liquidity to dry up at that point. So i can’t imagine that this is how it’s ultimately resolved and you get paid out.

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      7 hours ago

      Where did I say anyone was buying up shares after the event resolved?

      When the event resolves, the platform pays out $1 for each share on the winning side. Shares on the losing side are worthless.

      If you have a “yes” and a “no” share, you can join them together and sell them to the platform for $1, before the event resolves. You don’t have to wait for the event; you can sell them back at any time.

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        7 hours ago

        Yes but my whole question was about how a bet resolves, who decides it is resolved and who decides what the true outcome was. So i assumed your answer was to that question, which it didn’t seem to answer.

        See the edit in my original post.