So if you are unfamiliar with the bitcoin space it might take a while to understand. But essentially you can earn STEEM for writing blog posts, which is a digital currency based on the Steemit platform.

You can power down your STEEM after a period of time and send them to an exchange like bittrex.com to redeem for bitcoins, which you could sell for dollars. Or you could keep the STEEM in the ecosystem and do powerful things for years to come!