I've been on Steemit since July of 2017. The more I'm involved with the community the more believe in the longterm viability of the platform. That being said, last week I decided to try and convert  a small amount of Steem to fiat USD, mainly because I wanted to see how easily I could do it, and Steem has gone up since last year so it doesn't hurt to take a little bit of profit. 


When I started on Steemit, I had almost zero knowledge of cryptos, exchanges etc. and honestly, my knowledge is still pretty limited. I think I was a bit intimidated on withdrawing funds, as it seemed overly complicated. It turn out it's not that difficult to do, but there still does seem to be a lot of steps and withdraw time.

Essentially what I did was use Blocktrades to withdraw some Steem to Bittrex, by converting Steem to Bitcoin, from Bitcoin to Litecoin to save on fees (I saw a suggestion to do this). And then move that Litecoin to Coinbase, then ultimately  sell the Litcoin to USD that was to linked to my bank account.

Here was the end result of my little test in my bank account:

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I was able to convert Steem to $201.64 in fiat USD. 

My review: I'm probably not the first person to complain about this, but it feels like there is a lot of steps that need to take place in order to convert cryptos to USD. And when I did the withdraw I had to wait about 5 days for the funds to show up in my bank account.

I think in order for cryptos/steem to truly become full blown mainstream the process needs to be simplified. I wish there was a way to simply link an account and purchase Steem and visa versa to sell it back. At the same time, there's probably an easier way to do this that I don't know about.

<h1>I'd love to get your feedback on converting Steem to USD. Is there easier ways to do it? Tips or  tricks?</h1>

Stay calm and Steem on!

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