Its time to pay my weekly rent again to my Parents and thanks to Steemit i am able to regularly earn enough money to contribute, while living my Tree house life.
I would just send Bitcoin or ethereum to pay my parents but Cash makes a bigger Splash and lets me show non crypto people that its REAL
And So I used my Bitpay Debit card, and http://www.bittrex.com to sell my SBD for BTC or you can just use blocktrades.us and to convert the bitcoin to cash just use a Bitcoin ATM near you if you don't have your BitPay card ($10 one time fee, comes to your address, and it lets you withdrawl cash at any ATM using Bitcoin, so every ATM becomes a bitcoin ATM!) but as you can see, the Bittrex plus Bitpay card makes it very easy to turn Steem into cash within minutes.
And Bitpay card lets you use ANY ATM as a Bitcoin ATM! Man ...haha look ..money is money....this just makes you realize that yeah Bitcoin is money.....doesn't change the fact that its still about Saving Money! SAVING is still hard to do! we have to all jus stop impulsively buying stuff we don't need! But hey i guess someone has to support the new global economy of amazon boxes just going back and forth
Its honestly not something to worry about! You can use your Bitpay card and just keep the bitcoins as Bitcoin, and when you wanna send em you just use the app and "top up" and boom super fast it lets you spend the bitcoins as cash on ur debit card instantly, and i mean, debit card technology has been around for a while, why wouldnt this shit just work well? hah
I know that eventually we should be paying each other directly with crypto currency, but when I convert My steem to Cash I get to make posts like this!
And by bringing Steem into the "physical" world in many peoples eyes at least, I can drive home points about how its just as real as any other form of money we use! Most people who are just smart and keep their steem as steempower or trade it for bitcoin but hold onto it! But unfortunately we have many new users earning lots of steem and just cashing it out not saving any of it and so we all suffer as the price of steem goes down, heh its ok it will go back up, an itll go up fast! I just hope I can get more people to join Steemit after seeing more stories like this one ...We need to get the internet masses to see Steemit as more than just another Social Networking website with a crypto currency gimmick! we are so much more than that!
My next project , or ONE of my next projects, will be with at San Diego ComicCon to stand outside of Comic Con and hold up Steemit Signs and represent Steemit outside Comic Con and get some free marketing and free advertising for steemit!