oh wow, reading your post reminded me of the issues I had with steem-python. I had done similar methods to overcome the initial errors of scrypt and visual studio. I tried Anaconda, and then finally gave up on windows. I decided to get a virtual machine and install lubuntu(lightweight ubuntu) on it. Then i encountered the funcy error, so i uninstalled the funcy package and installed version 1.8 of funcy. Finally got everything up and running after almost 3 days of my first attempt on windows. I would suggest using https://github.com/Netherdrake/steem-python instead of the official steem-python repo because updates are made more frequently(including the funcy error) .