These days when I purchase Hive, I use my credit card for its convenience. Whenever I see a dip, I will flash out my card to grab some. It had worked so far as I paid attention to the dips and keep lowering my overall purchase price to make up for the Hives bought at high prices earlier.
Another reason for not buying from a CEX directly is to avoid storing lump sum of USDT on it. This should require little explanation.
I was checking out alternatives to buy Hive after noticing an interruption in Transak's service today.
Let me report what I found. It may be useful for some of you.
This is what I found after checking out Bittrex:

They charge a 3% fee.
I checked the Transak price too almost immediately, and this is the results:

Basically, I will get more Hive if I buy it from Transak since USD 103 gives 373 Hive, while Transak gives 388 Hive for the same USD 103. That is a difference of 15 Hive.
I will stay with Transak in the meantime.

P/S: This is not financial advice, and please do your own due diligence before investing.
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