They prevent short-term market manipulation from impacting the conversion price unless it can be maintained for over 3 and a half days.
Without this protection someone could request a conversion to STEEM, dump a bunch of STEEM on the market which will push the STEEM per USD ratio up. When the conversion executes they would get more STEEM and then price would recover.
They prevent short-term market manipulation from impacting the conversion price unless it can be maintained for over 3 and a half days.
Without this protection someone could request a conversion to STEEM, dump a bunch of STEEM on the market which will push the STEEM per USD ratio up. When the conversion executes they would get more STEEM and then price would recover.