I hope you can get the cash for essentials. Are there other ways to get it? I've been happy with my Bitwala debit card, but I don't think that is available in the US.
Steem and other coins are affected by the next Bitcoin fork. I hope they will recover when that is over. I'm building up some SBD to cash out as spending money at Steemfest. That's coming up soon.
Ya it's ok, my grandma came to the rescue and PayPal'd me $20 to buy some groceries. First time I've had to ask for money from anybody in a while, but it's only $20 so I won't feel too bad about it :-).
This bitcoin fork business is driving me bananas. I just wanna see steem reach the higher valuations that I believe it deserves... I'm still optimistic about hitting $2+ as a new normal by early 2018, it just feels like the external pressure of Bitcoin is crushing our valuation for now.