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It's pretty miserable here in the US for stuff like that. We can buy whatever is available on Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, PayPal, or Crypto.com. That's about it.

You could trade what you buy on there for $HIVE. We need it on more exchanges. The Transak thing is a convenient way for me to get it directly.

It looks like Transak could work for me, but there is no way to automate it. I have a feeling I might get tagged on the back end with foreign credit card fees too. That's the problem, where would I go to trade it into Hive? Most of the exchanges it is actually listed on are not available in the US or require KYC which makes it hard to use a VPN.

I see the Simpleswap service in peakd has some regional restrictions:

Also, we may not make all of the Services available in all markets and jurisdictions, and may restrict or prohibit use of all or a portion of the Services from Restricted Locations, which at this time include the USA, Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Canada, Central African Republic, Cyprus, Donetsk, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Luhansk, Malaysia,

What about https://www.leodex.io/ ?

You'd have to ask me that last question in a DM :)