I've been looking for hope and this is a glimpse of it. Although I am in Germany I am looking forward to more services and even steemit itself offering choices to rid the #bitcoindependency. Why hasn't steemit done such a thing already? All the money lost through bitcoin transfactions could have enriched the steemit platform more.
Also looking forward to being able to buy bigger things like a house in the future without having to transfer money to banks firtst. Housegiftcards? 😎😄
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Nvm! Cant find steem 😄
steem is not on there but a TON of other ALT coins are. i used dash and the fees were super low. trust me this is progress! :) -- steemit is not going to build the third party gateways but instead concentrate on their own website and optimizing and feeding into the community the way it does, we do have a bunch more devs thou jumping on board all the time.