If you can buy hardware, you can buy BTC. Just find a trusted escrow like John K. and then find someone to do a direct sale.
Otherwise you are going to end up spending 10k to buy 5k worth of bitcoin.
Not really. At least in my country (Argentina) you are not allowed to make wire transfers in USD unless you are paying for a contractual service or with travel purposes. The only leaphole I found in this USD shutdown is to cloud-mine, and I know for a fact that some other countries have similar situations in regards to foreign currencies.