Bought my first Bitcoin

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·@randystiefer·
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Bought my first Bitcoin
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So thanks to the excitement with SBD and Steem this last week I was flush with 80 liquid steem. My standard operating procedure has been to plow my liquid resources into leasing steem which had been working well for me. This week everyone is flush with liquidity so every knuckle dragger with a pulse has leased SP, completely drying up the market.  

Great now what do I do with the Steem Power leasing market locked up more than a Guido's bowels after three dozen cannolis?

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I didn't really want to lock it up as Steem Power. It wouldn't really raise my Vote power much and it would take 13 weeks to get it back out if I wanted to use it for something else. I could hold it and wait for either Steem Power leasing to settle or SBD to drop back to $1 USD/SBD but who knows when that will happen. Then I had an idea.

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I've been wanting to learn how to trade crypto and open an account on an exchange. So I did a little research and found that the two real choices seem to be either Poloniex or Bittrex. I also found Poloniex sucks hairy sack right now because they are having trouble receiving transfers. That said I signed up for Bittrex and went through the process of obtaining an enhanced account. My “selfie” must have scared them because my account was approved in about an hour. Next I had to figure out how to transfer the Steem to Bittrex. I felt like a retard trying to do calculus.

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Lucky for me there are a lot of great how to's right here on Steemit. One got me through the process on sending the Steem to Bittrex. Then another got me through how to sell the Steem for Bitcoin. I bought BTC at 13k and something. I have it written down(fuck yeah that's old school) but I'm too lazy to go look. So it's already worth more than what I bought it for. 

I have now officially owned three crypto's - Steem, SBD, and BTC.
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