Quote from: teramit on Today at 01:21:53 AM

not a perfect answer but regulated means they are safer then any other exchange
best regulated exchanges are:
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Can we stop recommending people any kind of exchange? I've gone through this topic and I saw the name of FTX four times as recommended exchange, making it the top of the safest ones out of the myriad of scams and it turned out to be a ...total scam!

How would you feel if one of those you listed fill for bankruptcy the same as FTX with zero coins in the wallet and OP comes here and tells how he lost his life savings?
Let's just stop assuming one is better than the other and focus on cold storage be your own bank, that's the principle of cryptos, if you want to use coins use your own wallet, if you don't care about coins and you just want to trade just trade on a platform where there are not even coins and you trade indices.