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My biggest concern is that there are so many exchanges. How the heck do I know which ones will pay me after I make an exchange? I know I have to check their reserve balance, but what else should I look for?
if you really want to focus on trading then choose an exchange that does have real liquidity. binance, FTX, coinbase, kucoin, gate.io are examples of exchanges that have real liquidity with transaction volumes of billions of dollars per day. don't trade on new exchanges that have no real liquidity and only offer nonsense.