BitStarz

BitStarz Review

Verified October 30, 2026

10.0/10Excellent

• Trust (30%)9.6
• Payments (25%)10.0
• Bonus (15%)8.4
• Games (20%)10.0
• Support (10%)9.6

Founded

2014

Operator

Gareton B.V. (Curaçao) since mid-2025; previously Direx N.V. (2014) and Dama N.V.

Licence

Curaçao (GCB)

Licence no.

OGL/2024/165/0185

Welcome bonus

100% up to 1 BTC + 180 free spins (four-deposit package up to 5 BTC)

Wagering

40x bonus, 40x free spin winnings

Min. deposit

0.0001 BTC / 10 USDT general; 0.0003 BTC for match bonus, 0.0006 BTC for free spins (thespike.gg)

Withdrawal time

Crypto: instant (thespike.gg, CryptoSlate 'Instant withdrawals'); fiat depends on region

Fees

No casino fees on crypto; network/gas fees may apply (thespike.gg)

KYC

on-request (thespike.gg: 'verification documents are reviewed within 1 to 12 hours'; trigger conditions not stated)

Provably Fair

No / unknown

Games

8245

Support

24/7 live chat, email support@bitstarz.com, help center; GamCare certified (thespike.gg)

• BCH
• BTC
• BNB
• ADA
• DOGE
• ETH
• LTC
• USDT
• TRX
• XRP

Pros

• Operating since 2014 under Curaçao licence OGL/2024/165/0185
• Instant crypto withdrawals with no casino fee, minimum deposit 0.0001 BTC or 10 USDT
• 8,245+ games from ten named providers including Evolution and Nolimit City
• KYC on request only, documents reviewed within 1 to 12 hours
• Not on the restricted lists for Germany or Austria

Cons

• Bonus expiry, max bet and game weighting not documented
• No sportsbook, provably fair games not documented
• Only five interface languages
• Blocks players from the USA

Verdict: The longest-running operator in the set with the cleanest payment terms, held back only by undocumented bonus fine print.

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Availability: Germany: NOT on list, Austria: NOT on list, USA: YES. worldpokerdeals.com restricted list: '… United Kingdom, United States of America, Yemen, Zimbabwe' and 'is completely blocked for players from the USA'; page states BitStarz 'operates in Germany' and lists Austria as accepted. CryptoSlate: 'United States of America' on restricted list, Germany/Austria not listed. Note: worldpokerdeals page cites old licence 8048/JAZ and operator Dama N.V. (outdated).

BitStarz is the top-ranked operator in our comparison and the one with the longest track record: live since 2014, Curaçao licence OGL/2024/165/0185, no documented regulatory action in 2024-2026. Crypto withdrawals are described as instant with no casino fee, the minimum deposit is 0.0001 BTC or 10 USDT, KYC is on request with documents reviewed in 1 to 12 hours, and the library runs to 8,245+ games from ten named providers. The welcome package is 100% up to 1 BTC plus 180 free spins on the first of four deposits at 40x the bonus. The gaps: bonus expiry, max bet and weighting are not documented, there is no sportsbook, and the USA is blocked.

Licence and ownership

BitStarz has been operating since 2014, which makes it the second-oldest brand in the set after Cloudbet. The operator since mid-2025 is Gareton B.V., a Curaçao company. The brand was launched by Direx N.V. and later run by Dama N.V., and many review pages still cite Dama N.V. and the old master licence 8048/JAZ; both are outdated. The current licence is OGL/2024/165/0185, issued by the Curaçao Gaming Authority in the direct-licence format introduced in 2024, which can be checked in the authority’s register.

No 2024-2026 regulatory actions or public disputes surfaced in our research. That is an absence of search results rather than a verified clean record, but it is the same standard applied to every operator here, and BitStarz is one of only a handful in the top ten with nothing to report. BitStarz is GamCare certified according to one source.

Restricted countries: the United States is on the list, and BitStarz is described as completely blocked for US players. Germany and Austria do not appear on the fetched lists; one source states that BitStarz operates in Germany and lists Austria as accepted. That is not a licence to operate in either country, where no operator in this comparison holds a domestic permit, but it means BitStarz does not exclude those players by its own terms. See the licences page for what a Curaçao OGL does and does not give you.

Bonus terms in detail

The welcome package is split across four deposits. First deposit: 100% up to 1 BTC plus 180 free spins. Second: 50% up to 1 BTC. Third: 50% up to 2 BTC. Fourth: 100% up to 1 BTC. In total that is up to 5 BTC in bonus funds. Wagering is 40x the bonus and 40x free spin winnings. Because the multiplier applies to the bonus only, not deposit plus bonus, a $100 bonus needs $4,000 in turnover, half of what Roobet’s 30x deposit plus bonus would require on the same match and a third of Stake’s 40x deposit plus bonus.

The minimum deposit to qualify for the match is 0.0003 BTC and for the free spins 0.0006 BTC, both above the general cashier minimum of 0.0001 BTC. Not documented: bonus expiry, maximum bet while the bonus is active, and game weighting. The expiry matters because a 40x requirement inside a short window is effectively a higher requirement; mBit, for example, gives 7 days. Without the figure, assume a window exists and check it in the terms before claiming. No no-deposit bonus is documented. The bonuses page compares these terms against nine other operators.

Crypto payments

BitStarz accepts BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, XRP, DOGE, ADA, BNB, TRX and USDT, plus fiat. The general minimum deposit is 0.0001 BTC or 10 USDT, among the lowest published figures in the set. Crypto withdrawals are described as instant by two independent sources, with no casino fee; network or gas fees may apply. Fiat withdrawal timing depends on region.

KYC is on request. Verification documents, when requested, are reviewed within 1 to 12 hours. The trigger conditions are not stated, which is typical for the on-request group (Stake, Cloudbet, mBit and Sportsbet.io describe it the same way). Withdrawal limits are not documented. In practical terms, BitStarz offers the combination most crypto players are looking for: a tiny minimum, fee-free instant payouts and no verification at signup. The Bitcoin casinos page sets these figures against the rest of the field.

Games and providers

The library is counted at 8,245+ games by one source, with 5,519 slots counted by another. Named providers: Microgaming, NetEnt, Play’n GO, Betsoft, Pragmatic Play, Evolution Gaming, Nolimit City, Hacksaw, Push Gaming and BGAMING. Live casino is included. There is no sportsbook; no fetched source mentions one, so we record it as absent. Provably fair games are not documented. For a casino-only player this is one of the three strongest libraries in the comparison; for anyone who also bets on sports, it is a reason to look at Sportsbet.io or Cloudbet instead.

Support and languages

Support is 24/7 live chat, email (support@bitstarz.com) and a help centre. The interface is available in five languages: English, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. That is the narrowest language coverage in the top ten; Stake offers 16 and Roobet 19. German is not available despite Germany not being on the restricted list.

Before you deposit at BitStarz

• Use the right minimum. 0.0001 BTC gets you a balance; 0.0003 BTC gets the match; 0.0006 BTC gets the spins.
• Ask for the bonus expiry and max bet in writing. Neither is published in the sources we fetched.
• Claim only what you will play through. 1 BTC in bonus needs 40 BTC in bets. A 0.01 BTC bonus needs 0.4 BTC.
• Old licence numbers are wrong. If a page quotes 8048/JAZ or Dama N.V., it is out of date. The current number is OGL/2024/165/0185.
• Check your country. The USA is blocked. Germany and Austria are not on the list, but there is no domestic licence in either.

How BitStarz compares

The closest peers are mBit and 7Bit, both also launched in 2014 and both now operated by Scores55 Tech B.V. under a shared Curaçao licence (OGL/2024/1307/0748). All three offer BTC-denominated multi-stage packages at 35x-40x. mBit publishes a 7-day bonus expiry and 3-day spin expiry that BitStarz does not; 7Bit publishes game weighting (slots 100%, other casino 5%, live 0%) that BitStarz does not, but requires verification before the first withdrawal. BitStarz has the lowest general minimum of the three (0.0001 BTC versus 10 USDT at mBit and C$40 for 7Bit’s bonus) and the widest coin list (ten versus ten at mBit and six at 7Bit). None of the three has a sportsbook.

Against Stake, BitStarz loses on coins (10 versus 18), languages (5 versus 16) and sportsbook, and wins on bonus structure (40x bonus versus 40x deposit plus bonus), KYC (on request versus Level 2 required for the bonus), documented minimum, and the absence of any regulatory action. Against Cloudbet, BitStarz has three times the games and fee-free instant withdrawals; Cloudbet has 1x wagering and 15 coins. The ranking order (BitStarz, Stake, Sportsbet.io, Cloudbet) reflects five equally weighted subscores, not any one of those trade-offs.

Fiat, limits and what is not published

BitStarz accepts fiat alongside crypto, with fiat withdrawal timing dependent on region. Withdrawal limits, the KYC trigger threshold and the bonus expiry are the three items we could not find. Two sources count the library differently (8,245+ games versus 5,519 slots), which is consistent rather than contradictory if the larger figure includes table, live and other games. The sportsbook absence is an inference from silence across all fetched sources, so if BitStarz adds one, this review will be out of date on that point. The data behind every figure here is listed on our methodology page.

Score breakdown

• Trust 8.0/10. Curaçao licence caps the score at 7.5; plus 0.5 for a launch before 2016. No documented incidents. Licence number and operator published.
• Payments 8.5/10. Ten coins plus fiat, instant fee-free withdrawals, 0.0001 BTC minimum, KYC on request with a stated review time. Deductions for undocumented limits and trigger conditions.
• Bonus 7.0/10. 40x on the bonus only is mid-range and clearly stated. Minus for undocumented expiry, max bet and weighting.
• Games 9.5/10. 8,245+ games from ten named providers including Evolution and Nolimit City. No sportsbook.
• Support 8.0/10. 24/7 chat and email, GamCare certification. Only five languages.

Verdict

BitStarz ranks first because it does the basics in a documented way: a licence number you can check, a decade of operation, instant withdrawals without a platform fee, and a bonus whose multiplier applies to the bonus rather than the whole balance. It is not the biggest casino, not the most multilingual and has no sportsbook. The missing bonus fine print is the one thing we would want fixed. The ranking context is on the best crypto casinos page.

Responsible gambling: instant withdrawals are only an advantage if you use them. Withdraw winnings rather than leaving them as a balance to chase. Gambling is for adults only.

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Last updated: October 30, 2026