How to purchase $HIVE

Hey guys some days back @acidyo made a post asking how you purchase Hive and suggestions for the ones that can't buy since HIVE is not listed in Binance US. This gave me an idea to make a post about it. I am sure there are some but listings and regulations changes so for a newcomer the more recent the post the better.
Now HIVE is listed in the following exchanges
UpBit pair HIVE/KRW
Binance pair HIVE/USDT
Binance pair HIVE/BTC
Mexc pair HIVE/USDT
Bkx pair HIVE/USDT

UpBit is a South Korean exchange and the supported countries are Singapore
Thailand
South Korea
Indonesia
It fell victim of a hack back in 2018 and in order to trade you need south korean won (KRW)

Now for those that can trade in Binance , Binance it's the easiest and safest way. Now Binance doesn't support the following Ontario (Canada)
China
Malaysia
Japan
Thailand
And Can operate in the US through Binance US but HIVE is not listed there. One way to trade is to buy a VPN like this https://www.purevpn.com
and trade freely but that will work only for the non-US citizens living in the US because if you are a US citizen Binance wont accept your KYC.

MEXC
MEXC is an ok exchange i am using a lot lately. You will have to do the same as Binance and use a vpn in order to trade and the good news is that you don't have to do a KYC so you can start buying HIVE , of course there are some limitation without KYC in withdrawals and trading but it's to be expected.

I don't now much about BKX so i wont write anything

@blocktrades

You can also use @blocktrades you have to buy some LTC go here https://blocktrades.us and buy HIVE with LTC.

One more way is to find someone in here and do an OTC that of course is dangerous so for anyone wanting to trade that way i suggest find someone that is active with a nice reputation even a big stake. In HIVE reputation is the most sought after coin and the most valuable

https://hive.io/
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/hive

I hope that this will help someone wanting to buy Hive but straggling because of restrictions!

*** After posting here are more ways to buy Hive suggested by the hive community

By @slothlydoesit : https://simpleswap.io/coins/hive

You can also use
https://stealthex.io/