The smaller cryptos will fly once the market recovers.  Most people look at this market and think "sell"  I look at this market and day "pound the table buying opportunity". 

I got out of bitcoin completely the other day.  Too many forks these days.  Each fork also claims to have something better than bitcoin.  I guess it comes down to bitcoin was the first to the market so it will always have the lead.  It is just hard for me to go with bitcoin solely for that reason though...

I've had good success on gate.io.  Really easy to use site.  Never had a problem.  Once it a while the spread is large maybe because they are not quit as big as some of the other exhanges

iota is good, but what about EOS.  It seams like iota has stalled out recently because of raiblocks.   EOS is supposed to have fast transactions as well.

I like
1) Deep Onion
2) Ark
3) EOS