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Sure but we're talking about getting Steem to USD. So Steem to Bittrex, sell Steem for BTC (fee) then transfer BTC to Coinbase (fee 2) sell BTC for USD (fee 3.)

Plus aside from the fees the multiple steps are annoying and BTC is slow so you have to wait for the transactions to go through.

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