US laws are terrible for anybody who wants to get into crytpo. But there are worse places on Earth. It's not popular yet. but the Decentralized ICOs of Komodo Platform is a great solution for this. My strategy is to buy some crypto with fiat on a KYC exchange and move funds and grow it with trading/ICO/Airdrops etc.
STEEM has actually been a great place for me to grow.
I agree that Steem is amazing. I don't feel as though trading is a good way to make money, but that's me. I don't have time to keep an eye on all cryptos and school gets in the way. As for ICOs, I generally avoid them because again, USA rules. Airdrops are interesting, but same principles apply. I will talk about the ICOs and USA next post I make which will be in a bit.