Celebrating souvereignity with a happy payday here on Steem It. First monday of the month, while I was sleeping, it happened. After I got up I started the browser, opened my wallet at Steem, and then came the 'WOW!' response. There was actually something there in my account! While the other part of the world was about to celebrate the fourth of july, I had a joyfull breakfast with my family. Trying to explain how Steem Power, Steem Dollar and Steem works. After three hours or more, I'm exaggerating a bit, it was clear to my family how it worked, more or less. So, PayPal account get ready 'cause her goes... nothing?
Using BlockTrades for a small amount Steem to DOGE just to try it.
Moving some Steem Dollar to Steem, with the internal exchange, went easy. Offered a nice price, and it got transferred in a jiffy. Didn't want to exchange everything, just some to try how things work within the Steem blockchain system. And it went smoothly on the Steem side of it all. Until I tried BlockTrades to convert some Steem to DOGE. Only a small amount, like fifty cents worth in Euro. It got confirmed very fast, and at a nice exchange rate too. But then when checking my Coinomi wallet on my Android mobile, it stayed at zero. Now these things sometimes happen at low transaction values. Or some blocks that take a while to get confirmed, because there are many transactions that need to get into a block. Maybe a very high difficulty even could drag things along.
Currently it has been three hours since there was a full confirmation from BlockTrades and no payment so far in DOGE. Not much is lost though. Will keep my Steem Power anyway. Maybe move some Steem to BitShares and try Shapeshift, while awaiting a response from Blocktrades support. At the Steem side of the chain everything seems to work smooth and fast. This is truly a cool usage of the blockchain technology, that might catch on now even more after the first happy payday.
[EDIT] BlockTrade really gave good support, excellent. They explained something was wrong with the DOGEcoin blockchain. And the last news is that it is getting up to pace again. All in good time...
[UPDATE] Received the DOGE from BlockTrade, great service!