For crypto exchanges, someone recommended changelly for me… is that a good idea?

New to crypto here. I wanna do it right this season…. last season of crypto – 4 years ago… made some extra strange decisions due to my newbisness and blockfi went out of business and earning interest on crypto seemed to be a thing of the past. Looking for a good exchange to exchange crypto on… and mainly buy and hold for dear life.

I've tried blockfi, gemini, cashapp, I was gonna try coinbase and opted out of trying. My concern is mainly these sites shutting down…. which seems like less of a problem nowadays… yet I want to do this right and have a ledger. It's very hard finding information on this type of thing… and it seems the community is the only way how at this point – since there's no true authority on how to trade crypto that I know of at the moment… and I really wanna make some money finally :cry