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RE: Restricted Access to Certain Products and Services for EEA/EU-based Users
This has been the reality in the US for quite some time now for most exchanges. I haven't had access to Gate in about 5 years. The only way I can still access my account is via VPN, and they've gotten smart to that now and are asking me to move my coins (everything there is frozen). I still haven't found a direct way to purchase STEEM yet; I have to use an exchange and send USDC and get them to, in turn, send me STEEM and pay the fees. There's talk that Trump is pushing to change it; we'll see.
https://www.binance.us/ doesn't work for you?
Edit: I just saw STEEM isn't available there. HTX?
Gate had a nice Visa (prepaid/debit) card feature to spend crypto anywhere. First they decreased the cashback, then completely removed it with a vague notice of "temporarily off" that is taking more than an year. Then, more fees and less flexibility. I suspended the card and no longer use it. I wasn't happy with their support either.
As it stands right now, my state (North Carolina) is one of the 12 states without access to Binance.us. I used to be able to access the regular Binance website with a VPN, but no longer. HTX is not available in the US. The only sites I can use are Robinhood and Coinbase, but they're limited in what coins I can buy. To be honest, I haven't used Robinhood since Doge was made available in other places...those hacks cost me money on the way out of Doge, not letting me sell at .71 cents by shutting the site down (I sold at .55 and made a killing still, but it's the point).
I have to use one of those dodgy aggregator sites like https://swapspace.co/ to send USDC or another type of coin (USDC is cheapest in fees and the fastest) to get STEEM. It gets sent back to me via a Binance wallet to my STEEM wallet as STEEM. There were three places to do that last year; now there is only one left that will send me STEEM.
I liked Gate being as they had a bunch of smaller coins I couldn't get elsewhere (RVA, ISP are a couple of examples). I made a killing on those sh*t/smaller/lesser-known penny stock-like alt coins until they cut me off.
I see. It all feels like less freedom and flexibility.
P2P probably is a solution, but I hate it, too risky and too many malicious players.
Poloniex (with VPN)? I don't use it much, liquidity is never good/enough though.