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After reading @surpassinggoogle's [*"Let's Build A Shareable Steemit Post, That Answers Every Newbie Question And Dispel All Doubts About Steemit!"*](https://steemit.com/steemit/@surpassinggoogle/let-s-build-a-shareable-steemit-post-that-answers-every-newbie-question-and-dispel-all-doubts-about-steemit-ask-me-anything), one thing kept rattling to be discussed. Yes, this will be a very brief post intended to dispel an obvious doubt ...among new and prospective Nigerian Steemitizens.

*Can I withdraw the money?*
*Have you withdrawn before?*

If you haven't faced those queries then you've not tried to get a typical Nigerian to join Steemit. Steemit is not MLM, which technically means you can make money without having to share it with anyone, and saving yourself the hassle of trying to talk anyone in. But then we have this beautiful community that promotes creativity, and all the possibility of making some money with it (yeah! let's not pretend that's not a thing). No one really jumps at an opportunity to blog, I mean there are myriad mediums to do that. Because of that we always sell Steemit to our friends, who we want to extend the goodies to, with a tamed promise of earning. And we always meet those resistances.

And for real I understand with them. When you consider the Armageddon that swept through the country the past year, in the form of ponzi schemes mostly facilitated by cryptocurrencies, you begin to be empathetic of the doubting Nigerian. When the dude is possibly rich by a few tens of thousands of dollars, but in TBC (lol! “the billionaire coin?” If no one ever tried to sell that shit “coin” to you, you weren't in Nigeria at all), but has grown weary trying to find anywhere to sell those, it's easy to doubt anything that comes like coins, even kobo.

For me it was a lot easier. Go back to when I joined Steemit, I only asked @samstickkz what exchanges SBD and STEEM were traded on, and I confirmed for myself. I saw the price charts and the community figures. It was enough. But that's me, and my kind is nowhere near ”regular” in Nigeria. It was easy to blog for weeks and weeks and didn't even bother to google how to withdraw, or ask anyone if they did. Again, for real Steemit wasn't intended to instantly take me out of my broke-assship. I'm a dreamer but I'm also experienced to know what Terry (@surpassinggoogle) will call “pacing”.

But I kept having to face the resistance of doubt whene'er I told most people about Steemit. It's the least I can do for the people I can influence, and this community, so I always try to share Steemit.

Me: *Ehm… I will withdraw. It's just that…*

“It's just that what?”

Really that was why I was very excited to share my story of [paying for work on my plantain plantation using my earnings from Steemit](https://steemit.com/farming/@misterakpan/paid-with-steem-my-plantain-plantation-got-steem-powered-up). Testimony wasn't the original motivation to withdraw and change to naira though, but I later saw the rhetoric as potent resistance to the doubts. So I capitalized on it.

And I'm doing it again…

Tomorrow I'll be going to Port Harcourt from Lagos on a trip I'll love to tag, "steempoweredtrip". Yeah, this trip is paid for from SBD earnings I converted to naira today. It's an 8 hour drive I'll take with about 13 other strangers, so I bought earpieces too… with the change from paying for my fare. Ooha! All steem-powered.
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And boy is it easy! I bet I'll make a tutorial with screen recording of how that is done. *Not on my life though.* I should. I've had a few people in our Discord group ask me how it is done. I will gladly put you through if you want that information.

Port Harcourt is a personal business trip. But I will use the opportunity to meet with two friends who signed up but still needed to be held hands on markdown, tags and everything else that complicates this adventure, for newbies. They are the kinds who just decided to wait till I see them and explain again what it was I was saying. If you are in Port Harcourt and will want us to meetup and discuss Steemit and stuff in general, it's easy to hook up. *At least I check my “reply” tab maybe 50 times each day.*

Off to pack my bags. *Oh...wait. I can do that just moments before I move, and I'll forget my phone charger, and I'll have to go buy another one. Hopefully with Steemit earnings.*😂

*If you love what you just read, it'll only be nice if you UPVOTEd generously* ;-)

With love,
Sir Akpan