Hive definitely doesn’t work that way now, either you receive rewards within 20 hours, or most likely you will not receive them later, at all. Unfortunately.
I had something else in mind. If you spend 4 hours on an article and you have $20 under the post then you will realistically get 50%, which is $10. You will get $2.5 per hour. In Polish reality this is not very much. But if you wait for the right moment, it might not be $2.5 but $10. I was writing at a time when HIVE was worth just over $0.1 Tokens that I got then I sold when it was over $1 and even over $2. I therefore got 10-20 times more....
Theres only 1 thing I can add here; there are different possibilities --
...there are different possibilities, and rewards are not a mechanical derivative of time invested. (Thank God, this system does not work under the control of egalitarian socialism). So, different tactics and methods are possible for a user who wants to spend less of his time and get more money from it. Users indeed may have different goals, but still ... you cannot (or, rather: should not) do something for the pure sake of money only. Practice has shown many times in the past that this leads to bad results in the long run.