Simple one today; what platforms can I use to buy Hive in the UK?
All the big and little sites I’ve visited (usually because they’ve been recommended to me) appear to have UK restrictions 🤷♂️
Thoughts?
Where can I buy Hive?
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You have probably figured this out from others users but... I'll add my little bit.
In Canada I can't buy Hive directly. Very annoying but my credit card won't work to buy Hive.
I have a Crypto.com account and Crypto.com VISA card. Loading it is each enough. I move money to crypto.com. I use that money to buy LTC. I transfer that LTC to Hive via the Hive-engine. Then I swap out the swap.ltc to swap.hive and then I have Hive.
Well, at least after I move it from Hive engine to Hive blockchain. When I want to take money out I just do the very same thing in reverse :)
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STOPI previous went via my Wirex debit card to buy Litecoin that I could swap on the blocktrades site (now dead). Later I used the Buy With CC (Transak) option in the peakd wallet to buy $HIVE directly, but that seemed to stop working. So I have not bought any in a while. It sounds like simpleswap is used by many, so I should look at that. I just haven't bought any in a while as I sold some Splinterlands stuff to get $HIVE to power up. We really do need simple routes, but regulations can make it complicated. I think some sort of KYC is mandatory.
I used changelly recently to buy hive
The link to my post explains more but basically bank account to coin base, buy btc, and then use changelly to convert and transfer to my hive account.
I did look at simple swap, and while I was able to go from btc to hive, it didn't seem to let me go the other way (and while I don't plan to sell anytime soon, I need to know there is an option for an off-ramp... changelly would allow me to do that)
Changelly also has a bonus in no KYC, literally just asks for an email address :-)
Give it a try Crypto.com or Zypto, for example (still trying to post a review of it). Unsure if they are restricted there in the UK.
Exchanges always get you better rates than conversions via other dapps/providers, but I would say, anything below 5% fee from FIAT to Hive, is a win already.
On PeakD you also have a couple of options on the exchanges, but they are mostly OK if you already have crypto.
The only way I know at this time is buy some other coin or a stable coin (coinbase works last I checked) and then trade into hive on binance or the likes.
Bittylicious is also good, it acts more like a peer to peer market for crypto than an exchange and is usable in the UK still. https://bittylicious.com/
There's no direct method of buying hive that I know of available in the UK and even getting normal crypto is a pain since binance nolonger does UK fiat payments
Pretty sure you can buy hive on binance in the uk,then send directly from there unless regs have changed recently.
The easiest way is to use hive engine. You have to buy litecoin (or whatever coin you want that has a swap equivalent on hive engine but I prefer litecoin) on whatever exchange you have access to, then send it to hive engine, then you can trade for swap.hive which you can transfer to hive.
I did KYC with MexC. Because it rhymes. Also the government makes me.
To start buying Hive, I have to buy USDC with my debit card in Mexc.
Then I transfer from the USDC fiat account to the spot account.
Then I make my USDC to Hive swap.
Then I try to transfer it to my Hive account. But it tells me I have to wait 72 hours. So I try a 3-day bender. But realise that my beer money has gone on Crypto. So I sleep awhile.
Finally I transfer the Hive I bought at $0.22 into my Hive account where it's worth $0.17
So if anyone has a better way, I'd love to know. Because I'm hoping to buy more in 2 months.
[I've replaced my comments as I realised I'm not a good fit for zypto.]
!BBH
Is Binance restricted in UK?
I had never used simpleswap, will check it out @stayoutoftherz
I use mexc exchange and it's an easy place to buy hive. You can try this if it's available in your country
You can use the easy and fast https://simpleswap.io/ to swap from other Cryptos to Hive. No account needed.
I buy from coinbase (requires kyc) and then simple-swap. Coinbase helpfully delayed my transaction until I'd taken their scam quiz.
