What's the point of having unclaimed rewards?

in #steemit8 years ago

What's the point of having to click a button to claim rewards rather than just automatically getting the rewards?

Monkey doesn't like pushing extra buttons!

No but seriously is there an actually point to it?

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From a post that I read this is a way of speeding up the blockchain transactions.

Claim Rewards - The New Button on Steemit Just Shown Up To Me!

A bot or third party app could easily bypass that by running a script that calls the claim reward function once every 5mins or so.

It is silly, but also kinda fun. "Click Button For Money!"

A button the user clicks seems like a rather crude way of accomplishing this.

In a way it empowers the user to decide when they accept the rewards.

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