The main problem is lack of HBD funding on Hive side for liquidity. People tried to raise HBD through Hive proposals to make derivatives on other chains. HBD derivatives are also very useful for buying and selling Hive for countries which HBD and Hive are hard to buy in. US citizens are blocked from most of the exchanges where Hive is tradeable. @blocktrades should have kept exchange KYC free. Bittrex is awful, and I don't trust vpns to work on Changelly, Changenow, stealthex, or other kycless exchanges.