Maybe you can expand on that ? Do you mean trading fees for ERC20 tokens in CEX are way lower ? So if I'm trading LINK for BTC, I'm better off with a CEX ?

I've been using CEX for a while now, I find many of the features are quite useful actually, but since getting a hardware wallet, I think I want to go with using a DEX now. Also, at this stage in the game I should be staking and using Metamask I think.

Other reason I would want to use a DEX is to access a greater range of tokens. My current CEX only offers 150 or so, and it's missing many of the gaming cryptos like Star Atlas, Illuvium, Efinity and other non gaming cryptos like Monero and Celsius.

I've gotta admit I've never heard of BISQ, but I'll look it up.

Thanks Jawadu, I will check that out. The KYC would be the only downside for me, as that's what my local centralized exchange does. I guess Binance also has KYC so it's probably unavoidable. If I had to choose between a centralized exchange with KYC and a DEX without KYC, but with only fractional BTC options, I guess I would choose the DEX, as buying BTC in fractions is still good as long as they don't set weekly limits like my current exchange does.

I'm not buying BTC using fiat, or even USDC ( I guess I should have specified that in my first post ). I'm basically trading my ALT Coin gains into BTC. I was early on Matic, Solana, Theta and a few other ALTS so I am looking to dump all my gains into BTC when the time is right. I am trading from outside of the US, so not many restrictions where I am other than the ones I mentioned. I rather use a decentralized exchange as I want to get away from centralized exchanges at this point, the way things are it just makes little sense to move from one centralized exchange to another if there are other options. Paxful sounds good, but the $50K limit means I won't be able to buy 1 whole BTC, which is what I want. My BTC and Ethereum currently make up only 10% of my portfolio so I've got to fix that imbalance soon.
I've heard some traders are using Metamask to access DEXs on Harmony One or Solana. Has anyone tried that ?

Hello group,

I know you can buy Bitcoin in many centralized as well as decentralized exchanges, and even in other ways. My question might be due to inexperience ( I'm a relative newbie to the game ) but my local centralized exchange only lets me buy Bitcoin in fractions. Last time I tried to buy the largest fraction of a Bitcoin I could buy was 0.25 . So even if I had enough funds to buy 2 Bitcoin, all I could buy was 0.25 BTC . There was the option of buying another 0.25 BTC after that, but there was a weekly limit, which probably made it impossible to buy more than 0.50 BTC in a week. So going back to my question, where can I buy a whole BTC or more at a time ? Any of the popular decentralized exchanges offer that ?
I have access to FTX and Exodus ( with the token swap ), but I would prefer the option with the cheapest transaction fees and fastest speed possible, so probably something like Serum or anything running on Solana, Harmony One, Polygon Matic or Binance Chain. Uniswap probably a non-option because of the high transaction fees.

Thanks in advance !