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# Alternatives

1.  **Use another referral link**

    Many influencers have referral links to an exchange of their choice (they are often paid by). You can join that exchange via their link and you will save some trading fees. But the referrer (Influencer) is making the real money. They can scale what trading fee discount you get and what cut they get. In many cases they will take the maximum leaving you no savings at all. Even if they share the maximum split with you (which _**REF**_ does always), you are still missing out on a 10-30% discount on you trading fees which is the exchange-referrer commission share that we send you each month, straight to your Bitcoin wallet of choice. So you will save about twice as much by using _**REF**_ instead.
2.  **Trade on a Tier 3 exchange with "no trading fees"**

    There is no such thing as zero trading fees, whether it's Robinhood, or a small crypto exchange like River or Strike. While these platforms claim no trading fees, they still earn substantial revenues from you. How? They charge a very wide spread, so you buy at a much higher price than normal market rates.&#x20;

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    Zero fee crypto exchange [spreads are typically as high as 0.85%](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/168ez0h/strike_swan_or_river_for_dca/), plus they charge large transfer fees. So in most cases you are paying way more to buy/sell Bitcoin on "zero fee" exchanges than using a regular Binance or Bybit account which charges 0.1% and has typical spreads less than 0.001%. But, if you had subscribed with _**REF**_, that rate drops below 0.07%.

<figure><img src="https://2485495668-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FAfDaUotO0IO8icMnZkxa%2Fuploads%2FMfZiWcJXxsKG84sAz67t%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=118d7b49-4c89-49e6-9cb5-82b626e927e3" alt=""><figcaption><p>Trading on an exchange like Gate.io with <em><strong>REF</strong></em> results in the lowest trading fees.</p></figcaption></figure>

_**REF**_ provides a better solution.
