Hi @timcliff, nice to know you are thinking in that direction. It is quite difficult and cumbersome at the moment, but the best way possible at this time is exchanging your steem dollars for bitcoins. I submited a post a few weeks back detailing the process I use to convert y steem dollars into USD paid into my PayPal account. You can have a read, this is the link : https://steemit.com/money/@delphia16/how-i-converted-my-steem-dollars-sbd-into-dollars-straight-into-my-payppal-account-in-less-than-30-minutes . I might need to rpost this article for others who are thinking of such to have a read. Thanks