Today I wanted to give a little heads up tutorial for those discouraged with the fact that simply mining for Steem isn't as easy now a days as running the old Steem wallet and letting your miners rip. Those days have long passed, something I as well wasn't aware of till a few weeks ago but thanks to a little ingenuity plus some trial and error I know have my miners at the house on autopilot constantly feeding my Steemit account some Steem Power thanks to a great service called Block Trades.
Lets get right into the initial setup I use, whichever pool you mine or coin is up to you, at this moment I am using F2Pool to pull in some Bitcoin and Litecoin with my SHA256 Asic miners (Bitcoin) and my dated Scrypt Asic (Litecoin). Setup your miners for the pool you use then just head to https://blocktrades.us/ to get started.
SETTING UP YOUR BLOCK TRADE ACCOUNT TO RECEIVE YOUR MINING PAYMENTS
Sign up for an account with Block Trades, once your in their site click on the QUICK TRADE tab to the top left of the site. Now your in the page to set up your receiving and sending setups.
Go to the SEND option click on the coin you would like to send to Block Trade for exchange. Once you have chosen the coin you like to send to Block Trade and trade, click on the RECEIVE side pull down menu. Click on the coin you would like to exchange for...in my case I selected the STEEM POWER option here, but you can also choose STEEM and STEEM DOLLARS as the coins you like to trade for and send to your STEEMIT wallet.
Now fill in the info from your STEEMIT WALLET, your username...you do not need for the @ symbol with your username. Now insert your MEMO ADDRESS found in your STEEMIT wallet under your username. (note: with trading for STEEM POWER you won't need your MEMO ADDRESS, this is for STEEM and STEEM DOLLAR trades only)
After that you simply click on the GET DEPOSIT ADDRESS, take that address to your pool, input it as your payout and your set. This address will retain itself for future payments so there is no need for further setup if you stick to the same pool mining the same coin, have to change the info if you change coins or pools but you should be now on auto pilot and get STEEM in your account with regular payments.
BLOCK TRADES HAS MADE MY LIFE SO MUCH EASIER
Block Trades is also here on STEEMIT, I have subscribed to them to keep up with news...you can find their profile here if you like to add them
If anyone has any questions I am down to help, just leave a comment here and I will try to help you the best I can. Thank you Block Trades for this valuable service, saved me a lot of time and hassle from mining and dealing with so many exchanges. Been nice to see some STEEM POWER growing through my miners once again.
