After playing the game a while, this question often pops up - How do I really get hold of the "money" and spend them in real world? Am going to give this super easy step by step guide:

(if you have not started splinterlands, feel free to sign up with https://splinterlands.com?ref=holmiumz to support my work AND make some money! - check my other post for quick started up guide)

Step 1 - Setup your HIVE wallet and Link them
1) Make sure you Splinterlands account has a linked wallet with Hive

2) To do that, click on your profiel and select LINK EXTERNAL WALLET
![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmbXsQhab4VLAdh96ScFaxUqXuu7xgm92PXGH5T65K9xPs/image.png)

3)And select HIVE (if you have not setup your Hive wallet, then just setup one (I personally use Keychain) here https://hive.io/wallets/

![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmYaA2E1wJrKnt2DQMQupwFU9X5JW3gWe9J72MAfzALPjQ/image.png)

4) Input your HIVE username exactly in the field

**PRO TIPS*** to seamlessly accessing all HIVE wallet feature, I would strongly recommend you install the chrome extention for HIVE KEYCHAIN. That will make your life much easier

Step 2 - Withdraw your DEC
1) This should be straight forward - go to your DEC balance and withdraw to your HIVE ENGINE WALLET

2) You should see the following, click "Transfer Out"
![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmZxVfE3mWonWdsJhrsEufMp8gsQG1z1U6rPfMadK6F1bu/image.png)

3) You should see aprompt from Hive Wallet Extension in Chrome to ask you for approval - just hit the button

4) Now you should verify your Hive Wallet to refer the 100 DEC in YOUR TOKEN page (not Hive yet) - *Some noob cant find because it is a token :D

![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmVrXo7GqDWsnaGAYQMNWNUFaUn96AN3m4vsR8Y4Y28JTr/image.png)


Step 3 - Convert DEC to HIVE
1) Login to https://hive-engine.com/ and signed in with your Hive WALLET extension. You should see your DEC reflected in your WALLET

2) Then go to Market and select DEC or you simply click here https://hive-engine.com/?p=market&t=DEC

3) Scroll below you will see BUY and SELL. Now you need to SELL your DEC to get HIVE so see example below
**PRO TIPS** to sell your DEC immediately, be sure input the PRICE with the highest bid reflected below the SELL box (in the picture below, it is shown Highest bid 0.009000)

![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmfLLzfP5nMgY9hwJjGVYQ9hqGDzBGRGz66Jtiy7J4HRHV/image.png)

4) Confirm the sell! And you will now see it has become SWAP.HIVE in your Hive wallet.
![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmQAmsgA4NjBLKoJdbhSZ5nv3vrbuS42q1hi7zyh1bpqzK/image.png) 

5) Now go back to your WALLET in HIVE ENGINE and click WITHDRAW and authorise the transfer. (note that there is 1% fees for all deposits and withdrawl)
![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmVXo6n2Kg6FQCLBZDZUDeqCitnyN77YtQYMbSP4DVL43u/image.png)

![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmTtgivX2qC48TwukFFFKvVEG3KezWk2jcDHp4rBqzasUy/image.png)

That's it! you will see them in Hive wallet. NExt just send to your Binance (if you need guide, I will do it next time)

Cheers!

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