There's a growing list of exchanges where you can do this

https://www.kraken.com

https://www.anxpro.com

https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com

https://www.coinmkt.com

Vault of Satoshi charges $99/mo for access to their exchange? That seems absurdly high just for access. I wonder why people would pay that much, and how popular it is?

EDIT: Ah. $99/mo in exchange for zero trade fees. That's actually an interesting dynamic.

That is interesting. It's also interesting to think about it as:

- There are trade fees, but only to a maximum of $99/mo, and only if you remember to ask us to cap them.

Can any of these sites actually realize that in actual USD in a reasonable timeframe? How much time and effort and waiting does it take to see $11k in their hands? Or do they have to do transactions of $100/max once per week with a waiting time of 10 days each?

Apparently the most common approach is to trade for Bitcoin on an exchange and then exchange that for dollars.

That used to be the most common before moolah, kraken, vault of satoshi, etc. came along.

Can confirm.

Kraken is eventually going to enable me to convert it directly into USD, but it still has some regulatory hoops to go through in California at least.

Daily DOGE trading volume is in the hundreds of thousands USD equivalent. Selling $30k worth is easy.

Check the order book for just one exchange (Cryptsy DOGE/BTC). Very liquid. There are tens of millions of DOGE worth of open buy orders at any moment time. https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/cryptsy/dogebtc

You can buy however much people are selling. I bought up to $2000 of Dogecoin at one time. I've regularly seen orders for significantly more than that though. The transaction itself is instantaneous, but of course wiring the USD to the exchange took 48 hours.

The timeframe is how long an ACH transaction to your bank takes. Almost all exchanges have daily and weekly limits, ranging from $4,000 - $10,000 a day but they will often up those limits if you give them more personally identifying information.

A normal SEPA (euro zone) transfer of < $13k takes 1-2 days, I don't know how long other transfers take.

I've found that it can help to set a timer, because then the task isn't "work until it's done", but instead "work for 5/10/XX minutes". When my brain just isn't cooperating at all , I try to find simpler things to work on, which still contribute to the whole.