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Yes blocktrades is releasing an update so you can’t do instant trades for steem or SBD for BTC or ETH! If you want to sell you can use huobi or Binance and send it their and create a sell order and get BTC!

ooh gosh sounds a bit complicated, do you think it will be back on bittrex soon or its down for a while? also when i power down, all my power goes back into steem right at the top? and then i can trade it for btc ? also how long will all powering down take? thanks so much for all your help btw!

It will take you 13 weeks to power down your STEEM and then yes you can send it to Binance, Bitrexx or use blocktrades to swap it for BTC

The exchanges were down due to the recent fork but its all back up now

just checked binance is also down on steem and sbd!! :( hmmm