Steemit Crypto Academy Contest/ S7W1 - Practical Guide on the best way to buy STEEM in Nigeria.

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It's another season and a new year to we all. I'm pleased to be here again to be part of this great contest. I want to thank the organizers of this contest for great work Weldon. Follow me closely as i unveil the perfect ways to buy STEEM here in Nigeria.

What is the level of crypto adoption in your country and how popular is the Steem token?

The level of crypto adoption in my country Nigeria has nothing to write home about. What i meant here is; Nigeria is still in total darkness when it comes to the adoption of Crypto Currency. Note even though Nigeria is the largest country in Africa, the mindset of our leaders has made the full adoption of Crypto limited.

Nigerians has adopted Crypto currencies but our government have made things more difficult for us when it comes to Crypto exchanges. We don't have the full access in transferring our local fiat direct to an exchange like Binance. The only means of funding your wallet must be via P2P transactions.

95% of Nigerians don't have any knowledge about STEEM token. This is as a result of the band of Crypto by our government. Sometime ago, the security men were on checked to find out if any one will fall victim. Whenever we are traveling, we will uninstall all our exchanges from our phones just for safety. If the practice of Crypto is band, how about the Steem token that is not even the Nigerian's Crypto.

Highlight various ways users in your country utilize to buy crypto assets.

The buying of Crypto assets in my country has not been easy, this is because of the high allegation placed by the government of the country concerning Crypto assets. However, there are many ways one can pass through before he/she can gain access to Crypto assets.

• Binance Exchange

• Trust Wallet

• Roqque exchange

And many more. Users of these exchanges uses P2P to deposit and withdraw funds to their local banks within the space of 24 hours. All the exchanged listed above, i would have said that ROQQU has tried her possible best to bring Crypto nearer to the common man here in Nigeria. Before now we can deposit fiat direct from our bank to Roqqu exchange but since the government raise a red flag on Crypto, it became cumbersome for Nigerians to buy crypto especially for those who don't have the knowledge of P2P using Binance and binance verification is usually difficult because of the rejection of our national identification slip.

However, because of the restrictions, Roqqu employed another means for Nigerians to be using RAVEN for withdrawal and deposit. This system of P2P was too cumbersome for people to understand. Many only transfer their token from Roqqu to other exchanged due to the procedure involved in making withdrawals. I personally loss #5,000 trying to send cash from my Raven to Roqqu. According to Raven customer care, i sent the funds to the wrong P2P which was not associated to my Roqqu account.

Prepare a guide on at least one of the ways to buy Steem in your country (Practical steps with screenshots required).

I will be showing you how you can buy Steem using Roqqu exchange here in Nigeria. First and foremost, you need to credit your raven online bank, via sending fiat direct from your local bank. You can now send funds via raven user to Roqqu, which represent peer-to-peer trading.

Note before now, you need to go to your roqqu and create a deposit link which you will used in sending the fiat to Roqqu exchange.

Step by step screenshot is seen below:

Deposit procedure on ROQQU Exchange
Open the App and click on deposit as seen on the screenshot below.

Enter the amount you wish to deposit on the space provided and click on proceed with deposit. See screenshot below.

When you click proceed, it will give you the opportunity to select the means of deposit. Choose peer to peer.

Different wallet will be displayed, so chose the one you are using. In this case i'm using Raven.

You have the access to copy the narrative and the peer to peer username. Note; you must not make any mistake in terms of copying those details to avoid fund loss. Click complete deposit as seen below.

After you have copied the username and the narrative, move over to Raven App and click on send money

Select Raven user

Enter the username you copied from Roqqu exchange and the amount you are depositing. Click on find user.

Paste the narrative and click on confirmed that this is the user because once transfered, it can not be reversed. Click on complete transfer.

Enter your password and click on complete.

My #1,000 was transferred successfully from Raven wallet to Roqqu exchange.

At this point, you can now use the #1,000 from your dashboard to buy STEEM token in Roqqu exchange. There are different assets on Roqqu, screw down and select STEEM, then click on buy.

Enter the amount you want to buy. Click on confirm purchase of STEEM.

Click on accept.

Click on continue as my Steem was purchase successfully.

You can see my Steem now in my Roqqu wallet below.

How would you rate the ease of purchasing Steem tokens in your country? Highlight the difficulties in buying Steem in your country, if any

The rate in which Steem is bought in my country is about 30% which is not a pass mark. This is because the deposit procedures are cumbersome for a common Nigerian to understand. Secondly, Nigerian government is against Crypto so even the investors of coin are even scared because of the security agents. This has made Crypto (STEEM) buying to be limited here in Nigeria.

What's your opinion on the future of the Steem token? And what method of buying Steem would you like to be made available in your country?

I'm very sure that Steem will be well recognize in the nearest future as the price of Steem will increase more than its previous highest highs. If Steem can be use to buy properties and asset via peer to peer, i believe the price will be meaningful in future.

Secondly, if our government can give the go ahead of Crypto trading in the county, by allowing direct transfer of our local fiat to exchanges like Binance, i think that will be more appreciated. Binance exchange should not limit the buying of Steem token only to ETH and BTC.

Conclusion

Roqqu is the easiest way to buy Steem token here in Nigeria. But you need to be very careful while carrying out transfer of fiat to avoid loss of cash.

If you can follow all the steps from deposit to the buying of Steem, you can equally buy Steem token here in Nigeria. Thank you for reading through my blog.

I would like to invite certain users to also participate in this contest and they are @ochang, @joyuduak, and @josepha