Today I successfully withdraw some cash from my Steemit profile, I will post the Steemit payment proof right under, and I can confirm that this website works. This is just something I had to do, because some other people, my friends basically expect to see that Steemit payment proof.
If you want to ask me about the worth of Steem, the future and how it fluctuate ... etc, please proceed to better-equipped steem technical bloggers who will explain everything down to the detail. My intention is only to provide some payment proof and how I perceive the general climate on this web page.
I also hope that this is going to be the last Steemit-oriented post in my blog, because once you introduce too much of the finance everything loses the meaning, and the things can change tomorrow. With that said - nobody has any control over the Steem future, so I better don't talk too much about it.
Steemit Payment proof
Snap it and check transaction.
I had to know if it works because I never participated in any of included websites ( Steemit, Blocktrades) before, so this was a perfect opportunity to test all this and see if it really works with the small amount of money. I withdrew only 5 USD to my bitcoin wallet because I am just starting with Steemit so I don't even have so much, and the payout was almost instantaneous, which is from my point of view more than perfect.
I hate to wait and I have to tell you that some web pages that pay their authors made an art out of waiting. Some work on 30 some of 45 mode - but these are not minutes - those are days.
How to withdraw your funds from Steemit?
I used the Blocktrades.us, follow the instructions from this YouTube video, and everything was exactly like presented.
You create memo by inserting your bitcoin wallet address in the Blocktrades field. Then you send your Steemit dollars to blocktrades with that memo. A piece of cake.
Transfer arrives within minutes. At least in my case.
How much you can earn on Steemit?
I didn't work for 5 dollars an entire month (I made it within one post) like what some users or majority here have the opportunity to experience. I don't spam with two sentence posts and I don't want to immortalize myself with the 'immobilized' posts. Crazy posts - yes, always. Useless and boring? No, thank you.
I made a major part of 5 bucks with one post but my post is 2000 words long and it is pretty much about one crazy topic. I mean I like crazy better myself - I was never into some sober themes unless they are useful, or crafts or something that you can apply to your everyday life.
I know that 5 bucks is not much, but many writers in here don't make anything or just cents, depending on many factors that influence their earnings.
Nobody in Steemit makes the same amount of cash because we are not the same, we don't participate in the same way, we don't post the same - at the end, we don't provoke the same reaction or have the same social reach, audience and billion other things.
So, even if you ask me and I tell you everything, you can't estimate or expect that your success will be equal to somebody else's. It is not possible. You can't even compare you and another person.
All posts on Steemit are permanent
One more advice - once you post on the Steemit it is the irreversible action - your post is literary immortal, so as long the Steemit exists so your posts exist in it. The same goes for the comments you make. Unless you really don't want them here, don't make them.
When the transaction is made for your content it is no more possible to edit them. If you have 0.00 on post counter you may edit, but not after you earn something.
Reward per post splits on curators, authors, commentators...
Also, a reward per post is split to authors and curators, and your reward is part of the author's part. So, this is again a different type of a website than any other classic content mill.
So, if a total reward says 100.00 $ my best guess is that I will get around 50%, or even less, but everybody else who pay kudos to my post and comments also has more opportunity to earn, or at least to scream at me. The perfect equation is in the fact that we actually can make more with one post on Steemit than on the plethora of others networks and websites separately or together. It si up to you how do you plan to work, what way is better. You still have to invest time and effort because the quality content writing is not something you can do in 5 minutes.
Difference between Steemit and content mills
You do know that the content mills fall down like the flies because essentially they have nothing but the money earning like a basic idea and an engine to it all, plus they are usually advertising based - they have to roll huge traffic to satisfy their advertisers and all the members. If the advertiser catches even a little speck of bad intentions, disobedience of the rules - they will not pay. So once the advertiser put a hammer down, it is over. The website is closing.
I don't say or claim this is some perfect model, and that the Steemit is indestructible - but it is far better than the usual dependable websites in which I have participated. I participated in pretty much everything. The content mills were not popular before, everybody had pages, blogs, something. But this social blogging hype came to the hype in the later years and as far as I can say it is becoming one big circus.
Freedom of expression
Also, the audience on the Steemit is far better and more honest, because they have the freedom of expression that you will not find in other paid content mills. There you have to shut up, obey rules that are sometimes not logical or in a way of a normal discussion and behave no matter what you think or want to say, and that is one of the reasons why I am not in most of them. I mean I try but come on, if I am not able to speak out, what is the use? I find that part extremely important for what I write or/and comment.