These are major issues that I have been wrestling for a while. You can use probit.com for Hive purchases as a US citizen, but it feels like it operates in a gray area of legality. I saw on Twitter that Uphold was thinking about adding Hive and that would be enormous for us. Right now, the easiest way to get money into the platform as a US citizen is literally to just start blogging. Really hoping that Uphold comes together, but for now it is really super difficult to get directly invested... A real shame.