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A Possible Good In-between of CoinBase and Robinhood?

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Just last night as I was scrolling through Instagram, I found an advertisement about a site that bolsters no transfer fees for selling and buying crypto. Now usually, I completely ignore these ads as they tend to be scam-like and just a huge waste of time, but this one was different.

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To begin, I am very new to PeakD and Hive, yet alone only a ripe three months old on buying and selling crypto. I began with CoinBase and loved it, I had access to so many different currencies and was able to trade easily. However, over time with usage of Robinhood having no selling/buying fees, I am beginning to feel quite dissatisfied with my profits being taken.

And of course, Robinhood has a huge caveat that stumps my future on its platform. Buying is terrible! I love buying at the current price for however much I want, I highly dislike having to buy using the limit. In addition, Robinhood only has about 8 different currencies! I don't want to put my small bit of money into bigger coins like lite coin and Ethereum, not that there is anything particularly wrong with them, I just like investing in smaller and more volatile options.

But... What if there was a interface that allowed for free exchanges and buy/selling? Well with the small research I did about Crypto.com, this may be possible? I looked around with some sites talking about it and read some reviews. Crypto.com seems like it could be legit, no big issues with hacks or thefts, and it is FDIC insured, secured and regulated. Sounding good so far, but what are the small problems that are being swept under the carpet, if there are any.

To begin, some currencies are limited and are not available on this app. A little saddening but I'm sure there are a ton more than what Robinhood offers currently. Another issue, I saw that by depositing with a debit card, minimum purchase is $20 with a fee depending on the country you reside in. However, Id rather take a small fee depositing than every time I sell my crypto or buy, as I rarely add money and just work up with my profits. The co-owner of Crypto.com is Kris Marszalek and seems to have a decent record and reputation with only small issues about transparency and generally shady work.

As most of my life is online, I knew I couldn't just trust website reviews that could be biased towards one way or another. So I started to look on TrustPilot to check out some user reviews and find out the small day-to-day problems that I can look forward to inevitably having to deal with. Reviews are quite mix-matched and seem a little botted from my observations, I saw many loving this site talking about the rewards card one can get but I also saw many on the complete opposite spectrum. Critics of the site complained about the support putting in no effort, and many had large issues of pulling money out or straight up losing all of their money.

In conclusion, by no means am I suggesting this off of the research I found, it sounds too good to be true. But maybe it really is a good site to make some profit off of. So I end this with asking you all what you think? Are there any alternatives beside these three that you personally use? Tell me about it.