Oh, another option is bitUSD, although I haven't used it myself yet.
Trust is the issue, agreed.
BitConnect just died, taking several with them. I had evaluated it and hopped in for four months last year; fortunately, I realized it was a scam "a moment too late" (seriously, it was about 10 minutes after starting with them), and didn't put any more in, and took everything out when it ended. You can find them by searching ("libertyteeth bitconnect") -- I did several posts on it showing the returns I was getting, my assessment that it was a scam, they shut down while I was using them because "if you click the button twice it will do a double-send" which is really, REALLY bad programming -- I thought they were folding at that point, and would have lost my investment, but they didn't.
I also showed that they would likely fold when BTC went down -- and, they did exactly! Here's my post when they went down, it has links to some of the others as well so you don't need to search: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@libertyteeth/bitconnect-is-down-as-predicted-health-and-light-and-trading-update
Take care!
I will check out your posts! I like bitUSD, but isn't it similar to tether in that if they don't have the actual fiat behind what they are calling USD it is likely to fold after an audit...The govt. has a big issue when you call something a dollar and its really not...and I never really got into bitshares because they don't have enough coin options available, but I will check them out more. Thanks, following!
Thanks! Yeah I've opened an account at BitShares but that's as far as I have gotten so far. Hoping to investigate it further someday soon... I also noticed the lack of many coins, so decided to stick with Binance for now.