Well, my first post payout was basically nothing, so I didn't do anything with it, (it was maybe around 0.02). I remember I received 3$ from one of my first posts tho, and as I didn't know how to use the platform, I clicked the promote button and spent them promoting one of my articles (which didn't work to get more votes anyway, lol).

PD: Do we need an EOS wallet or just an EOS adress on any exchange? I've heard you need to pay for creating an EOS account.