Successfully converted all shitcoins to Solana as you suggested, out of Uphold finally. Used Phantom extension. Now I'm unsure of if I should directly transfer it to self-custodial BTC wallet (i am thinking of using Sparrow/ Bluewallet/ Electrum) or LN Alby wallet.

As I have already set up Alby for this SN, I have a general idea of how I can transfer. But I have used any self-custodial wallet yet, I want to learn how to transfer stuff (send and receive), do backup, store keys etc. so I am thinking of going with that. Not sure. Will do some more reading before next steps. THANKS AGAIN. You helped a lot, your long post was actually very clear for me to understand and gave me rationale about why I should skip XRP and go ahead on SOL network.

Now I want to get on BTC now. Let's see.