Good you mentioned FTX. It actually was a great thing. Absolutelly necessary in the journey of bitcoin. You probably suppose it was something organic that happened naturally. Well, it is not immoral to suppose for oneself. Unwise, but not immoral.

FTX punished the ridiculous opportunists and gave an opportunity for normal people, other than wallstreet, to stack at prices below 30k. So I love FTX.

Having said that, I don't know much about the exchanges in US nowadays, but just in case, I would rather use any non US exchange, and even not any branch of anything in US. Basically, US is a warzone. Why risk anything inside of it, when the world is wide beyond it.