Hive is available on many Tier 1 and Tier 2 exchanges, including Binance, Upbit, Bitget, HTX, and can generally be fairly easily acquired.
Sadly, this is not true for United Stated based players. We cannot trade for spot Hive on any US based centralized exchanges. It makes Step 1 infinitely harder to accomplish. Of course, once we have Hive, things become much easier to swap for.
This. I just checked binance and they still do not allow fiat deposits. We used to be able to, though!