I traded .45 of a litecoin for steem today. I had .48 of a litecoin, so that was most of it. Interestingly enough, I chose a good day to do it, litecoin was up by a couple of % and steem was down by a slight bit, so perhaps I did a bit better in the exchange than I might have done yesterday. I powered up 10 steem to start with, and spent 6 steem on steembasicincome.
I'm in this thing for the long haul...