There's many factors, that's why people get confused.
My easy way to explain, is to simply say, HIVE value varies, right? so look at it as you are getting X $HIVE from all the upvotes, but when the 7 days finish, 50% of that hive (in HBD value) is going to be sold for HBD and paid out.
Does this way make you understand why the value varies if constantly showed in HBD+HIVE ?
More Info Example so it makes more sense:
Imagine a post has 10 HBD in upvoted rewards, and its set to pay in 50/50% (HBD/HIVE). An lets say 2 HIVE = 1 HBD to simplify...
Then the calculation is, 10 / 2 (because author only receives half) = 5 HBD´
Then because the post is set to pay 50/50% in HBD/HIVE, and because the 2 HIVE is 1 HBD, the author receives, 2.5 HBD + 2.5 x 2 = 5 HIVE
In conclusion, you get 2.5 HBD + 5 HIVE from author rewards.
that those can vary sometimes confuses me still. not even sure how would i go about to explain it :D
There's many factors, that's why people get confused.
My easy way to explain, is to simply say, HIVE value varies, right? so look at it as you are getting X $HIVE from all the upvotes, but when the 7 days finish, 50% of that hive (in HBD value) is going to be sold for HBD and paid out.
Does this way make you understand why the value varies if constantly showed in HBD+HIVE ?
More Info Example so it makes more sense:
Imagine a post has 10 HBD in upvoted rewards, and its set to pay in 50/50% (HBD/HIVE). An lets say 2 HIVE = 1 HBD to simplify...
Then the calculation is, 10 / 2 (because author only receives half) = 5 HBD´
Then because the post is set to pay 50/50% in HBD/HIVE, and because the 2 HIVE is 1 HBD, the author receives, 2.5 HBD + 2.5 x 2 = 5 HIVE
In conclusion, you get 2.5 HBD + 5 HIVE from author rewards.