RE: How to avoid waiting days for your Bitcoin
Thank you so much @birdbyte! I tried to buy bitcoin at a local ATM a few days ago when it was at 9K and that effort ended in total failure -- there was a sign on the machine saying that the service was closed because the fees were too high and the chain was too congested.
Please excuse my using this reply to get onto my favorite rant about Steemit. When I see the incredible amount of 'green content' in your post, and realize the effort you put into it (I am a very experienced data analyst and writer), and then see your current payout level at $0, I just want to cry.
I can take you to several posts where people more or less come and say "Good morning my friends and followers. I slep well last night", and they get $10 more in payment.
There are several Youtube channel owners who get paid by Google, repost their videos on Steemit with little 'green content' attached and get much more that $50 (or more than $100) as payment here at Steemit.
This is crazy stuff, as far as I am concerned. Our "get paid for posting your content" system here needs major surgery.
Thank You @lestatisticien! That means a lot and I appreciate your kind words. I am still new to Steemit so hopefully, the payout will change soon. I enjoy adding value to teaching where I can. I agree with you as far as the payout goes. I see some pretty ridiculous posts get really good pay. I don't enjoy cheating the system like that.
You make a really interesting point here, re. adding to the teaching; because I was over in Medium and Reddit last night where all people get are "claps". The quality of what I was reading is rarely met (by me) among Steemit posts, and that's no surprise to me because I come from writing communities where nobody is writing to get paid X$ for as payment for writing piece Y. Just look at all the woinderful music peope are just giving away on Youtube!
It's a really intereting question just whom @Dan and @Ned thought they would attract by saying "come over here and get paid for writing piece Y in Steemit". Maybe they were not thinking about people like you and me! At the same time, I find it damned annoying to see a small circle of people consistently getting $10, $50, $100 payments that are explainable only on the hypothesis that they are loved by certain whales and/or have thousands of followers.