I think we are gonna be friends. Ok well, # 1. With you on the liberation... or at least I hope to be soon on my account. Just started today so I am not in a rush just yet. As far as the crypto there is a guy named mindhunter on here that does half way decent videos about everything crypto. I find he is easy to listen to. I have only been on Bittrex a few times and sold some SD for bitcoin. Think of your steem as a digital token. The token can be traded for bitcoin or other ditigal tokens on the crypto market by getting this thing called a "wallet" somewhere (we have one on our steemit account for example and you can trade between wallets) Your steem can be traded for a coin and then that coin can be traded for fait currency if you so wish. If you want more voting power on steemit I would suggest getting the little slider bar that not a lot of people know needs 500 Steempower for. It is one goal to work towards anyways if you are into that kind of thing. Also if you put your SD into steem power it can take 3 months to get the SD back out again. Hope that was helpful.