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I would like to know which is the best cryptocurrency exchange. I am currently using bittrex but it doesn't have much coins listed in it. Which are the other good alternatives?

Despite poloniex having a large volume, it doesn't have that much many coins but the coins listed there are good and you just need to choose what you want and no need for many shitcoins.. Try yobit. Or search at google for more.

Bittrex is one of the best exchanges in terms of number of supported cryptocurrencies. It supports ALOT of cryptocurrencies, what more are you looking for? :P  If you're looking for certain cryptocurrencies, head over to https://coinmarketcap.com/ and search for the coin you're looking for, then click on the "Market" tab so you know what exchanges you can purchase them on.

Its hard to say this is the best as it depend upon the user.
I regularly use bittrex and bitstamp.
Serach for more but at the end, its totally up to you

You need to decide what currency(s) you want to trade and then to make a decision.

Most of my colleagues that are buying/trading crypto are using Bittrex and Kraken because of large variety of different coins.
I am trading on Bitstamp because at the moment I have interest only in bitcoin and consider it to be reliable exchange.

I would like to recommend what I use --> poloniex.com

There are so many reputable altcoin/bitcoin exchange by now currently my favorite is Bittrex like you've already mentioned one of the very trusted Im using it for almost a year and I got no problems so far I also tried Poloniex although I have no bad experiences on this exchange but I can see a lot of scam accusations lately because of some delayed withdrawals, missing deposits etc, Crytopia is also a good exchange as long as Liqui exchnge using it for some months but fee is much higher than others, You can also try a decentralized exchange like etherdelta its kinda complicated for first time user of this exchange but if you familiarize it already its awesome exchange this is also one of my favorite.       

Bittrex for me is the best, although it might not list every coin which is not a bad thing, it is a solid secure and professional exchange.

If you are more concerned with the amount of coins available then I would suggest Yobit as they list almost everything.

you have two famous  bittrex and bitstamp

but it is so hard to choose between them so that use both and take best

hope i help you
thanks

In my opinion bitrex is the currently the best and I am using them for most of my trades. Only when I need to trade some less known altcoin I use cryptopia, yobit, CoinExchange, NovaExchange and even etherdelta for some tokens. But on those other exchencges I never leave to much money.

For trading i recommend Bittrex (best variant) and then Poloniex (their support is not cool).
For exchange to fiat - localbitcoins.

Noob question: do you need to use exchanges like bittrex, yobit etc to convert altcoins to ETH? Or can that be done via Ethereum itself?

To convert regularly for gaining profit - yes, exchange is the most convenient option, if it supports ETH pairs for your altcoins.

Sorry if understood your question not correctly.

Not really for gaining profit (like: trading), I was just thinking of converting multiple currencies to Eth for convenience. Say, if I participate in bounty campaigns and end with many types of tokens in my e-wallet. My understanding is, 99% of those alt. currencies are "custom" eth coin. How would I identify those that do not support ETH pair, and does it mean they potentially cannot be exchanged? I'd appreciate the tip about how to make sure a certain company token is exchangable to at least ETH/BTC, else taking part in a bounty would probably be a waste of time if I can't use that currency anywhere outside their own payment ecosystem... Thanks!

Poloniex is the best exchange but you can also try Bittrex. I only talk about altcoin throught

Maybe check Yobit exchange, it has a lot of existing coins and I guess also adds new.
https://yobit.net/en/market/

Poloniex has a very user friendly interface. But the support is really bad. My ticket takes mths and yet unresolved. Reply once in abt 2 or 3 weeks but not helping at all. Can’t believe this is the support std for a financial service provider. Doesn’t feels reliable at all. In search for an exchange managed by accountable & reliable team now.

I don't really like Yobit for trading because it doesn't seem very user friendly. I use them just for dice games. For trading, I have used Poloniex and Bitfinex. Both seem good to me as trading platforms and both appear to have good security with 2 factor authentication. They are different in that they have some different coins on them. You probably need to decide which coins you want to trade and see which exchange seems to look the best and easiest to use. Also make sure there aren't a lot of complaints about the site too.

I actually compiled a list of exchanges but i am not personally a user of all these exchanges thus can't comment on which is the best:

www.bittrex.com
www.poloniex.com
www.kraken.com
www.cryptopia.co.nz
www.livecoin.net
www.cryptodao.com
www.novaexchange.com
www.c-cex.com
www.yobit.net
www.coinexchange.io
www.bisq.io
www.liqui.io

Cheers

Personally I am using Bittrex and Binance without any issues till now.

I was using Poloniex but the support is too slow and the website is lag. So I am mainly using Poloniex for lending nowadays.

That's a very good overview, but i miss cex.io.

In my opinion bittrex is the best exchange due to it's high volume and the quantity of listed coins.

So far I tried hitbtc, kraken, yobit and cex.io. (And bittrex of course)

hitbtc:   Low volume
kraken: Slow and less coins
yobit:    SO MUCH WALLET UNDER MAINTENANCE! ->Don't trade!
cex.io:  Less coins

Liqui, Hitbtc, and Kraken

you don't need to use only one exchange (in your case - bittrex). Use (register) in many oather exchanges. And then store tokens in exchange that supports these tokens.

I'm doing so...

another consideratio when choosing the "right" exchange is how well managed it is on the compliance-front. recently Coin Hako (another platform) had to close off their bank account due to AML risk.

Poloniex is good alternative exchanges which has listed many altcoins and you can trade on it with more options :)

It is depend on your strategy, if you trading btc - fiat you should choose bitfinx because it has big marcet cap with over than 25000 btc are traded everyday.

i think its important to spread your funds into various exchanges as most exchanges are still "centralized" and although risk with bigger players are lower... there is still risk.

for trading of BTC against USD, you could consider CFD type of platform where you don't actually hold BTC but settle the difference (between opening price and closing price). One platform is eTORO.

As for me the good gateway is  Coinbase
It has very useful interface without additional function. And as a begginer I appreciate it. The interface is very clean, making easy to make  purchase of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. My first purchasing was LTC, which I bought with bank transfer and paid fee about 1.49%.

Overall bittrex is the best but I find liqui.io has the best new coins offered the fastest.

Poloniex has a nice interface but waiting a month for a customer service reply is a bit crazy.

The best cryptocurrency exchanges are the peer to peer ones. Changelly is better than ShapeShift as they just integrated SegWit to lower fees, and also sites like tuxexchange.com are great places to get em.

i came across an interesting project that does P2P exchange on a decentralized platform. https://www.airswap.io/. Not sure if they are any good?

Disclaimer. i am not involved in the project nor am i investing in their ICO

As far as I know, bittrex has many coins listed there unless you are looking for more coins which maybe you can find in yobit exchange. Poloniex has been one of the good exchanges before but due to the issues recently, many people transferred to other exchanges because they are afraid they might not be able to withdraw their funds in that exchange and many of those transferred to bittrex. Cryptopia may be one of the exchanges you have to look at if you can see your preferred coins are listed there. You can also go directly to coinmarketcap and find the coin you want to buy and see what exchange it is trading.

There isn't really a best exchange. There isn't one that's far above the others if that is what you thinking. Most exchanges I find useful and good. Be careful when trying out new exchanges though. Make sure they legit. It almost always is legit but rather be safe and exchange smaller amounts on new exchanges.

You should rather be asking what you want from an exchange so we can better help you.

I read about bittrex and what i got is only good reviews so why not to try it! There are only some medium reviews but problems were solved fast.

Why nobody mentioned bitfinex at all?

you have to take in consideration the listing of altcoins. You don't find all the coins in all the exchanges so, it is good to consider that once in a while, even if you have a favorite exchange, you will have to use other exchanges to, so there is no best best exchange...

I had this problem when starting out to, it's like all the cool projects you looking into are never listed on the exchanges you have your funds.

But general guide is that Poloniex and Bittrex have the most stablished and big projects/ICOs tokens listed. Not all the projects there are big, you got bitbean in bittrex for example, but in general they now only add big money projects or projects of teams with influence.

Cryptopia lists many new and low to medium tokens it has ok volume. Livecoin is OK too and a bit similar to cryptopia but with more criterium than cryptopia when it comes to list new tokens. Coinexchange is ok to and similar to the ones alredy mentioned.

I just use Bittrex, unless there is a coin I really want that's not on Bittrex, then I'll use whatever exchange it's on. Such as Binance or coinexchange.

I don't recommend liqui.io I'm basing some complains here in forum like this one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1979054.0


The most popular exchange that has a very poor support, I will never recommend this exchange. I don't want to get an headache out of their withdrawal/wallet problems and hoping from their support team will rescue me, no.

For me Bittrex,Liqui and C-cex are the best crypto currency exchanger.
But there are tons of other crypto exchanger that is a good site.

coinbase has very high volume.. which is great because it reduced significantly the spread (difference between buy and sell orders). Try to check the volume of the exchange you will use, if it is high, that's good. Another thing is to see if  you're able to deposit there anything without submitting any KYC (your country might to be excluded from creating an account), so make sure to check on that

Liqui, Bitfinex, Binance and Bittrex are my favorite exchanges.

I would say that coinbase the best I ever heard and used. I have always been facing with some bad regarding kraken or poloniex. The first is buggy, sometimes is down and you can't do anything.

It's hard to find one best exchanger. There are a lot of good exchangers but there are also many scammers. Also the courses differ on different exchangers every day. There are monitorings of exchangers where you can compare rates on different exchangers on the day of exchange. I use for example this monitoring https://rates.guru/. It is convenient and it allows you to trade profitable.

Some exchanges that you may not not know of. There are good exchanges and there are bad.
Here are some exchanges that I'd recommend.
Shapeshift.io (http://Shapeshift.io) - No need to have an account, immediate exchange once you deposit.
Changelly.com (http://Changelly.com) - A bit more faster than shapeshift, but you do need an account.
Binance.com (http://Binance.com) - A lot of altcoins to explore with.
If you're looking for exchanges, use these, they have less complaints  at least till now. Good luck.

Changelly does not work like real exchange site where one trades for profit. I mean buy and sell for profit. What Changelly does us offer users an opportunity to exchange one crypto to another from different sites on its platform. It does not offer that service of allowing users store cryptos and then trade them on its site. So, we really can not count it as an exchange.

For me there is no best crypto exchange all of them has negative feedback that is why i can not considered as best exchange because of that. But i am using poloniex and binance i dont encounter any problem with this two exchange but like i said some of the groups in telegram tells that these two exchange is sucks. But since i am satisfied with their services i am continuously using their site.

Depends on the trader on where he is comfortable with trading. I wouldn't say that all of them has negative feedback but its true that there's no one that is clean enough to have a perfect system. They have unique downsides but they have also uniqueness on why they are being liked and used by various traders.
You just said that all of them has negative feedback and this is why I say I wouldn't say such words like that because look at your experience. You haven't encountered yet any problems with these exchange but with other users there are problems that are existing with their account,deposit or withdrawals.

I found some helpful sites here atleast: www.hexabase.net

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For me Bitpesa still comes as a good exchange platform, and its very relaible with good support staff.
Another good exchange is remitano but brings together very many different buyers and sellers, but their trasaction/transfer fee is high.

The best exchange for you is dependent on your needs as well as some personal preference.

There's currently at least 200 cryptocurrencunhy exchanges, according to https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/ (https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/). In general, it's best to stick to the more well-known exchanges (which typically have the highest volume).

Coinbase is often recommended to beginners, as it's the easiest exchange to use and has industry leading security. The major downside of Coinbase is that it has high fees (~1.49% for bank transfer purchases, 3.99% for credit cards (though it's one of a few exchanges to even accept credit cards and these fees are lower than CC accepting competitors)).

GDAX (owned by Coinbase), Gemini, Kraken, and Bitstamp are all exchanges that have fees under 0.4% and allow you to make purchases via bank transfer (Bitstamp also accepts CC purchases). All of these options are widely used and based out of the U.S. or Europe (Bitstamp).

• Gemini supports trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum
• GDAX supports trading for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash
• Bitstamp supports trading for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ripple.
• Kraken supports the above 5 coins and 10+ more.

Once you own cryptocurrency, you trade a huge variety of altcoins on Binance. Binance is the world's most active cryptocurrency exchange and offers over 100 different cryptocurrencies.

Here's a more detailed comparison of the best cryptocurrency exchange: https://unhashed.com/best-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-exchange-reviews/ (https://unhashed.com/best-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-exchange-reviews/)

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The 3 Best Cryptocurrency Exchanges

1. Coinbase
Coinbase is the largest crypto exchange, boasting over $20 billion in trading volume and over 10 million registered users. The exchange offers access to ethereum, litecoin, bitcoin, and bitcoin cash. It was rumored that Ripple would be available on the platform early in 2018, but the company has stated that it has no such plan. Coinbase also provides an active trader platform known as GDAX that has a plethora of features and analytics for short-term crypto investors.

It is relatively simple to set up an account and buy your first cryptocurrency on Coinbase. The exchange is one of the very few that allow the purchase of cryptocurrencies via U.S. dollars.

Your account is set up by clicking on the "sign up" button on the upper right-hand corner of the site. Next, you fill in the requested personal details and agree to the user agreement, and click the "create account" button.

You'll then need to verify your email and choose your account type. Most of you will pick individual account unless you decide to own your crypto in another entity like an LLC.

Everything seems normal so far, but this is where crypto exchanges start to differ from traditional online stock broker s.

You will be asked to enter your phone number. This is not so the exchange can call you to suggest upgrades or sell it to a telephone solicitor, the reason is far more important. Your phone number is used as a two-step authentication security system to help keep your account safe. When you log into your account, Coinbase will text a code number to your phone that needs to be used to log into your account. Your username, password, and text code create a strong barrier against hackers accessing your account.

Next, you will be asked to confirm your identity via uploading a photo of a passport, driver's license or photo ID.

Finally, connect your funding method, which can be a bank account or debit/credit card to your new account. Funding methods are verified by Coinbase via a small, refunded charge to your account.

Now you are ready to make your first order!

2. Gemini
Gemini is an exchange launched by the Winklevoss Twins of Facebook fame. The account setup is very similar to Coinbase, but the exchange is not available in some states .

While you can only trade bitcoin and ethereum on Gemini, the exchange provides FDIC insurance for cash balances. This is rarity I consider a huge positive in the world of cryptocurrency sites. Unfortunately, there is no insurance once your cash is converted into digital assets.

3. Kraken
Kraken is a true digital currency exchange offering 17 different cryptocurrencies for trading. There is a three-plus level approval process with each level more onerous than the last.

The first two levels are very similar to the steps of the above exchanges. Being approved for level 1 or level 2 allow full use of the exchange, but there is no funding via U.S. dollars. You need to transfer to cryptocurrency from your wallet or another exchange to make trades on Kraken.

Reaching the third level requires all the steps for the first two exchanges plus a selfie photo of yourself holding a handwritten sign with the date and "for trading cryptocurrency on Kraken only" on it. Doing this reminded me of most wanted criminal flyers at the local post office.

What I like about Kraken is that if offers the red-hot currency ripple. There are very few exchanges offering ripple that also accept USD, making Kraken one of my favorite exchanges.

Risks To Consider: Out sized risks exist in every concurrency and exchange. Only use money that you can afford to lose when investing in concurrency. Think of crypt o investing more like speculation than true investing. Along with the high risk, huge gains can also be made. In the crypt o world, risk truly does equal reward.

Coinbase is the largest crypto exchange offering access to Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash. It also provides an active trader platform known as GDAX that has a plethora of features and analytics for short-term crypto investors. In addition, it is relatively simple to set up an account and buy your first cryptocurrency on Coinbase.

I think KuCoin is one of the strongest exchange that also offers mobile app (Android and iOS). They have been constantly updating their mobile app to make it one of the best in the industry.

I appreciate of BitMex. It is high volume crypto exchange created by a talented team of economists, high-frequency traders and web developers for the crypto community. The primary currency traded on this exchange is Bitcoin and its future contracts. Apart from Bitcoin contracts, one can also play around with future contracts for altcoins such as Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin, Ripple.

You should try KuCoin. It is an easy and hassle-free cryptocurrency exchange in my opinion. KuCoin offers many popular and unique coin such as DragonChain, $KCS, and many others. Just like Binance, they offer a fully functional mobile app for Android and iOS.

One of the most popular exchanges worldwide, Poloniex is a solid and reputable choice for traders looking for a decent selection of altcoins. A major advantage of Poloniex is the ability to trade on margin, giving seasoned traders the option to short coins. Although there are only a handful of coins available for margin trading, this is a very welcome feature that seems to be pretty rare to find in the current state of crypto exchanges. Like many of the others, the Poloniex UI does not offer much in the realm of advanced technical analysis tools, but overall is a great interface that provides tons of useful information without seeming too cluttered.

Bittrex is a US based exchange, with usage all across the world. This exchange puts a lot of focus on supporting as many altcoins as possible, including very new and emerging ones. The UI is pretty good and gives a fairly high number of technical analysis tools for those who are interested.

Shapeshift is one of the most unique exchanges out there. It stays with the nature of cryptocurrencies by decentralizing the trading process. In other words, users need no account in order to swap their Bitcoin for Ethereum. With no fiat support, but a low (practically nonexistent) barrier of entry to a pretty large selection of altcoins, Shapeshift has continued to grow as a popular exchange among traders.

From my point of view, Changelly is one of the easiest ways to get ahold of various cryptocurrencies. When you use Changelly to exchange cryptocurrency, Changelly bots connect in real time to some of the best and busiest cryptocurrency exchanges in the market to get you the best price.

I speak highly of Bitfinex. It is one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges out there. On Bitfinex, if you are a pro-trader, you will find advanced trading tools such as limit orders, stop orders, trailing stop, fill or kill, TWAP, and others, along with different market charts.

You should try Cryptopia. It is a popular cryptocurrency exchange that supports buying or selling more than 400 altcoins. They have aggressively grown to this stature and have the record of listing many cheap coins. By cheap I don’t mean that those coins are fake or scam, but yeah, they do list those coins that you will not find on other popular exchange.

shapeshift could be his choice but if he wants to try to trading, then I think he can try with bittrex, poloniex, cryptopia, binance and the other and he can buy and sell many coins. he can make a big profit if he has a skill in trading so no matter he joins in what exchanges, he can always make the profit in a day or weeks. but still, this is too difficult to earn the profit especially if he has a big target percentage that he wants to reach because we don't know where the market wants to go.

There are lots of exchanges are available but now a days many exchanges stopped new registrations and some have limited amount of users per day so you have to pick up the exchange without these issue.
I think Poloniex is the best exchange for altcoins because all the altcoins are available in this exchange and the fee is also very less when compared to other exchanges.But you can also use coinbase to buy ethereum with bitcoins but you need to sell your BTC first then buy ETH from the exchange.

The best cryptocurrency exchange for me is Binance. It has user friendly interface, simple in use, quite secure, no problems with withdraw and deposit, fast identification.

Personally I think HBUS is the best place to exchange cryptocurrency. https://www.hbus.com/

Never heard of this exchange and it looks new so upon reaching the website they are affiliated with huobi. I might try them because they have some good promo's like zero fee trading for 30 days.

And there is a giveaway if someone deposits 1000 USDT but this type of giveaway has low chance of winning.

Are they are requiring to login before seeing their trade markets? I haven't signed up to them but currently the best crypto exchange for me is binance.

For me the best exchange is Binance, because they are really working on their users, so I think this at the moment number one. But I think Coinbase has also started to work on their new platform and started to add a lot of coins. I am trading a lot but I only use top 10 best cryptocurrency exchanges (https://cryptolinks.com/cryptocurrency-exchange), because they are quiet reliable, because on others you are not so sure when the exchange will vanish. ;)

A lot of them are just useless. They're good to take your money to list your coin but when it's about to handle their own wallet and maintenance, they're not in hurry. You can wait over 1 month to get the maintenance complete.
I prefer to pay higher fees to get a premium service. While waiting some hours is acceptable, waiting some weeks is not...

If you want to play it safe, I would recommend to look for the oldest. I've been using Bitfinex, Kraken and Poloniex for years, and that gives confidence. I started on each one with a little sum, which I've gradually increased. I wouldn't even consider a new exchange. I'll wait till it's at least one year old.

That's right, don't even fool to those newly emerged exchanges offer high rewards just to attract noobs and greedy traders.
Choosing a high volume exchange is a great idea which makes you a better profit and avoids those exchanges having a ton of complaint to avoid possibly the same problem in the future especially withdrawing fund. As of now, I'm using Binance almost a year, so far so good I don't have encountered any problem.

IMHO ChangeNOW is the best. It's non-custodial exchange service, it means that you needn't register there to make exchanges, it's more anonymous. Also, you can avoid KYC creating exchanges less than 9-10 BTC

Say you want to pay for pizza in Bitcoin  the receiving party must be willing to receive Bitcoin in return for the pizza they give you. This problem virtually doesn’t exist with the USD, but as digital currencies have not become mainstream yet, we need to find those who want to exchange our cryptos to fiat or other tokens.