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Also, if a whale upvotes you, the time can extend much further than 12 hours. It's based on the influence of the voters, allowing for plenty of time for people to change their vote before it pays out.

Steemit has a lot of awesome surprises baked in. The more you learn the more exciting it'll get ;-)

There are also amazing coders in the open source scene building top notch applications around the platform - you can find many on http://steemtools.com/ by our own @roelandp ;-)

If you go back to your old post (or any post up to 4 weeks old) and click on the amount, you'll see the detail of how much was already paid and how much is pending to be paid in 4 weeks.