As someone on the outside with no skin in the game other than a long, long forgotten wallet with a single coin mined in ye darkest of ages when you could do so with consumer hardware...

Conceptually, I dig bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Realistically, these exchanges are all sketchy as hell, and the situation with Tethers being apparently printed out of thin ether and used to prop up value raises enough concern in me that - in tandem with the many, many reports of people getting locked out of selling - I generally keep away from things.

Steemit seems a cool enough idea I'll play with stake generated from writing, but for now I'm very cautious as an American. As you've said, though, as a non-American there are far fewer hurdles and legel challenges to jump through to interact with the crypto environment.