Would you be willing to take STEEM or SBD instead of paper money?

There are the obvious ways to acquire STEEM and SBD, posting articles on Steemit.com, curation, minig and purchasing it through an exchange.

For those who don't understand cryptocurrency or are new to it and the people who aren't really tech savvy, all of those options can be a bit confusing which will turn those people off to the idea and ultimately lead them back to traditional currency and feeling like crypto is "a scam" or "not real".

There are also the individuals who spend hours posting stuff here and hoping to get noticed and just never get enough upvotes to make it trend, leaving them discouraged, upset, angry, hurt and ready to leave the community feeling negative about it.

The other option to get STEEM and SBD is to sell stuff and accept it as payment. At the moment bitcoin is the only crypto that you can use for physical goods and services but even that has it's limitations. This could be a great time to do this because people are earning SBD with no investment so it's still in the "fun" phase but the options to spend it are mostly limited to buying other crypto's (if you haven't heard of the Million Dollar Pizza you should google it)

If you have a service you would like to offer, an ebook to sell, photography, art, music, graphic design, writing and the list goes on. You could also take a look around and see what you have that you no longer use that might be of interest to someone else and sell it for STEEM.

There are a few options at the moment to assist with this, I have opened a website like craigslist called SteemSwap.com where you can can post an ad let people know that you accept STEEM/SBD, there is another site like this in the Steem App Center called SteemMarket created by another user @msutyler.

One of the biggest problems so far with most of the crypto-currencies is that they are not accepted as payment for stuff, there for considered worthless to most and once the hype dies down and a new alt-coin comes out the people who are into crypto move to that in hopes of finding the next "bitcoin" and the last hype coin dies.

Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them and what people are willing to pay creates the value

Start selling stuff for STEEM not dollars, or take it a step further and make it STEEM exclusive as in only available for STEEM/SBD. A good example is Tidal, Jay-z built up the value of his streaming music platform by offering exclusive releases from artists only available on Tidal.

One of my talents is music, so I have started producing beats that I will be selling exclusively for STEEM. I will post them on SteemSwap.com, here at Steemit in the music section as well as other music sites but only accept STEEM or SBD as payment. If you want to check it out here is the link:

https://steemit.com/music/@highlite/selling-hip-hop-beats-exclusively-for-steem-sbd-on-steemswap

This is our opportunity to add value, assist in the growth and help solidify a permanent placement for something big. @ned and @dan gave us this amazing platform to earn and the large investors like @berniesanders, @blocktrades, @smooth, @itsascam and a bunch of others have given us immediate financial gain with their upvote. Now it's our turn turn show them our support and increase the value of STEEM by turning it into a real world currency, start accepting STEEM/SBD or even consider doing something exclusive for STEEM/SBD.

In closing, I would like to apologize to the "whales" for the shameless plug with the @ call, I promise I'll never do it again. Also to every one reading I admit, part of this article was a plug for SteemSwap.com ( which is absolutely free to post ads by the way) but this article highlites THE reason I started SteemSwap not to make money off the site but to try to create real world value in STEEM.

I admit, part of this article was a plug for SteemSwap.com ( which is absolutely free to post ads by the way) but this article highlights THE reason I started SteemSwap not to make money off the site but to try to create real world value in STEEM. Credit to @oaldamaster for the STEEM Accepted Here graphic