How to buy a Steem Dollar for less than a Dollar

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How to buy a Steem Dollar for less than a Dollar
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<p>If you want to convert your Steem Dollars into Steem NOW and then sell them on an external exchange then you'll have to pay a steep premium.</p>
<p>However, if you're of the belief like I am that Steem Dollars will be relatively safe for a while you can pick up that premium for yourself, and simultaneously be supporting Steem.</p>
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<p><strong>here's how..</strong></p>
<p>We have the internal market which is trading higher for steam and the external market which is trading lower.</p>
<p>The strategy would be to buy Steem on the external market with BTC, transfer it over and then sell the Steem on the internal market for Steem Dollars.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>The internal market STEEM/SBD</h3>
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<h3>The external market - STEEM/BTC</h3>
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<p>Please take note the the price in the internal market is in Dollars, not Bitcoin. We are looking at a price on the bids of $0.387 in the internal market to $0.2389 in the external.</p>
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<h3>Buy a Steem Dollar for less than a Dollar?</h3>
<p>Lets say you have $100 of bitcoin, you go into the external market and buy Steem, you would get 100/0.2389= 418.5 Steem.</p>
<p>You would then transfer over that Steem to your wallet on Steemit to sell into Steem Dollars - looking at the best bid above that would net you 418.5*0.387= $161.9 worth of steem dollars.</p>
<p><strong>Why is this, whats going on?</strong></p>
<p>Some people just can't wait to cash out, they want to get out as soon as possible so are willing to pay a higher price - currently the internal market is the only way to do this. The people who are willing to buy it off of them are providing them with that liquidity as a service and being paid for it. However with this being the first payout, the opportunities are huge.</p>
<p>Give it a go if you have some spare crypto lying around. Free cash anyone?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
<p>I gave it a go, transferring over 0.05 BTC to bittrex</p>
<p>I managed to buy 141 Steem on bittrex for around 0.000352BTC</p>
<p>I then sold on the internal market, netting myself $50 steam dollars from bitcoin worth $33.7</p>
<p>It took around 6-7 minutes.</p>
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