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A comment on Ask HN: How do I go about buying Bitcoin on a Mac in the UK?.

Re:Ask HN: How do I go about buying Bitcoin on a Mac in the UK? by c7DJTLrn on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:16PM (#30047963)
Buying cryptocurrency in the UK is a pain because of the regulations. A lot of exchanges simply won't deal with UK customers.

The only way I've been able to acquire cryptocurrency is by mining it. I mined ETH back in 2017 and converted it to XMR recently which netted me a nice amount.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I go about buying Bitcoin on a Mac in the UK? by jstx1 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:27PM (#30048095)
> A lot of exchanges simply won't deal with UK customers.

This isn't true at all. Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, Crypto.com, Bitstamp, KuCoin, Gemini are all available in the UK (and a bunch of others too).

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Re:Ask HN: How do I go about buying Bitcoin on a Mac in the UK? by augustuspolius on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:34PM (#30048184)
Doesn’t sound like mining Bitcoin is the right advice here. It’s pretty easy to buy crypto in the UK using one of the many exchanges available.
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