@blocktrade is legit shit! I actually made my first pile of Steem from an upvote from them! I shortly after discovered they were the buy/sell market for Steem and if you follow the directions everything works flawlessly! I have traded STEEM for Litecoin, Dogecoin, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, and then traded those currencies for Potcoin, feathercoin, dimecoin, hobonickels, mooncoin, and a few others!
but STEEM is going to skyrocket soon so... I'm not cashing out anymore for a while. I just wanted to not have empty crypto wallets running in my nodes :) I wanted to see some numbers other than 0 :) haha
Saying the money is unusable is totally a false statement is my point. I have so many outlets for using, changing, and cashing out my crypto that it is literally not even funny.
Just take one piece of advice... Do not store your crypto in an exchange sites online wallets! Run a node yourself! I posted an article about this a day or two ago after the half billion dollar hack in Japan of NEM coins... Don't trust an exchange to store your money, only to quickly exchange it... 99/100 exchange issues are user error... Wrong coin address, didn't past the right transaction number, etc...
Either way, I'm sure blocktrades will set it straight... Your post implied a lack of faith in the idea of STEEM. I hope your expectations get reset because this platform is going to explode!!!