I just got my first payment from Steem: wow, it really works!!

Lately I have managed to accumulate $16.78 STEEM Dollars in my wallet in payments from my more successful 50/50 posts (although I also made a few posts with 100% payout in Steem Power). Today, as I noticed that the current value of SBD was 99% of the USD, I decided to try to withdraw it for the first time. I followed these instructions by Hive account@cryptofiend and used the excellent BlockTrades service to transfer SBD from my Steem Wallet to my Bitcoin wallet. The whole operation took less than five minutes and I didn’t even have to register on BlockTrades!

My reaction of incredulity and happiness at the smooth and successful withdrawal of STEEM Dollars

$16.76 STEEM Dollars were converted into 0.02262576 BTC. This amount of bitcoins equals to USD $16.24 at the current price of Bitcoin. So, $16.78 SBD into $16.24 USD – not bad at all!!

If I was feeling enthusiastic about STEEM and Steemit before, now I am a true believer!