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Best Bitcoin BTC Mining Pools of 2009, 2010 and 2011

Part of our Bitcoin Mining Pool by Year series: 2009-2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 The first bitcoin was mined in early 2009, with the genesis block mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January …

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We've used all of these and can recommend them from first hand experience.

Try EU based Coinmate and receive €20 when you purchase your first €40. We've been using these for a long time, and they're a solid mid-size exchange, who also support simple and quick topups with Revolut! Read our review.

Want a wide selection of crypto and altcoins or to buy crypto with a credit/debit card? Check out Binance.

You can easily purchase crypto with cards, as well as trade a wide range of crypto's and tokens on the UK based CEX.

You can purchase crypto with the well established exchange Coinbase and get a bonus $10 when you trade your first $100 (or euro equivalent).

Looking to trade peer-to-peer? Try LocalCoinSwap.

We maintain a list of the best crypto betting sites, and we recommend the following:

Featured Crypto Sportsbooks

NitroBetting (formerly Nitrogen Sports) is a long-standing crypto sportsbook, betting and casino platform with a wide variety of major sports.

Featured Crypto Casinos

Konung Casino offers a wide variety of casino games and a live casino.

Provably Fair Bitcoin Games

Crypto Games | Provably Fair Dice, Slots, Blackjack, Minesweeper, Plinko & Lotto with a wide variety of cryptos supported. | A Look at Crypto Games

Read our full series of crypto gambling articles

If you're just getting started with cryptocurrency, there are several methods to get your first couple of euro of cryptocurrency to put in your wallet.

Did you know that the Crypto part of Revolutb> has a section called Learn? You can earn around €10 in free crypto from doing some lessons (and we know you can't take it off like other exchanges, but hey, free crypto!)

Want to use your computer to mine cryptocurrency? Cudominer lets you mine a variety of cryptocurrencies. Read our Cudominer Review to see how it works. Note, this could potentially cause damage to your machine as we learned the hard way so do it at your own risk.

If you want to try a faucet to earn small amounts of crypto which pay out when you reach a certain threshold of bitcoin, you can roll the dice and potentially get up to $100 in bitcoin once an hour by registering with Free Bitco.in and doing their roll. Once you earn 0.0003 bitcoin, this is transferred to your nominated wallet.