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I am *completely new* to Altcoins, but am getting fed-up with the problems of Bitcoin confirmation times and high fees. I am considering alternatives for some of my crypto holdings.
I saw no obvious thread for altcoin beginners here just now.
What "Alts" are reasonably easy to use yet fairly liquid (easy to buy, etc.)?
At this point, ease-of use is most important to me, if I go down "Alt Road", I may later want to look at features like better than BTC anonymity for example.
Thank you for any suggestions!

If you are concerned about more anonymity then i think Monero(XMR) would be a good choice but speaking of wide variation of transactions with less confirmation times i think ETH would be suited on this one.This is just my own perspective and there are still some altcoin does have the qualities that you are looking for and i do somehow agree about the problem arising on bitcoin network as of now.