Peter Siu

Peter Siu

iGaming.org Editor/Team Leader
Peter is a former poker-pro, turned crypto enthusiast with 8+ years’ experience in operational roles dealing with all online gaming verticals within large iGaming companies, including Flutter and Entain. Now an expert in the field of Sports Betting, Casino, iGaming, and Poker, he is our team leader and editor. When not working, Peter can be found in the gym or playing sports like football, tennis and more recently padel.

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Peter's latest articles

Ripple Can Access Important SEC Speech about Ethereum in its Ongoing Fight With the Agency

A welcome victory was celebrated by Ripple on Thursday in its duel with the Securities and Exchange Commission with the judge ruling that the SEC cannot claim that emails about a significant June 2018 speech about Ethereum are considered private documents The speech made by SEC official, William Hinman, holds massive weights according to the..
4 years ago

Bank of America Gives Solana an Edge over Ethereum as The “Visa of Crypto”

A research note on cryptocurrencies published by Bank of America this week makes a strong case for Solana in its competition with Ethereum, predicting it can take a big share of the second largest crypto asset Noting that Solana is a perfect fit for micropayments, gaming, and non fungible tokens (NFTs), analyst Alkesh Shah takes a bold position..
4 years ago

City Mayor Reveals “Crypto Rio” de Janeiro Plans And Announces Purchasing Bitcoin

Known for its famous "Copacabana”, Rio de Janeiro is putting 1% of its city reserves to Bitcoin (BTC) City mayor Eduardo Paes, announced his plans to turn the city into a cryptocurrency innovation hub, “Crypto Rio” According to reports, the city is working to convert at least 1% of its treasury in cryptocurrency Paes said that “the..
4 years ago

Crypto Exchange FTX Launches $2B Fund With Special Interest In Gaming

Crypto derivatives exchange FTX announced it has created a $2 billion fund to invest in crypto-industry startups Initially reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing Amy Wu, the Head of the fund later confirmed the news herself on Twitter https://twittercom/amytongwu/status/1481977808930975755 The new fund, FTX Ventures instantly..
4 years ago

Dogecoin Now Accepted for Tesla Merchandise

Electric vehicle manufacturer, Tesla, has started accepting dogecoin payments for some of its merchandise ‘Dogefather’ and CEO Elon Musk made the announcement himself on on Twitter early Friday morning after in December last year he had already hinted at DOGE acceptance at Tesla After the news broke, DOGE surged nearly 15% Nevertheless, it..
4 years ago

Mythical Games Partners with Abstraction And Develops Play-to-Earn NFT Strategy Game

The Netherlands based, creative game development studio, Abstraction is partnering up with Mythical Games Recently valued at $12 billion, Mythical Games has selected to work with Abstraction on an action-strategy game based on the developer’s own proprietary technology, which will be integrated into Mythical’s new crypto..
4 years ago

Is Tonga The Next Country to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender?

Another clue in the race for the second nation state to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender was revealed on Wednesday In a series of tweets, Lord Fusitu’a, a former member of parliament for Tonga, shares his playbook towards the Island nation inevitable adoption of the top cryptocurrency as legal tender With a strategy covering five..
4 years ago

Fidelity Predicts Nation States and Central Banks to Buy Bitcoin in 2022

A recently published report from Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto branch of Fidelity Investments, with $42 trillion assets under management, expects nation states and central banks to buy Bitcoin (BTC) in 2022, incentivized by a high-stakes real life play of game theory In their 2021 annual report, Fidelity gives its “two sats” on the..
4 years ago

Block Announces It Is Developing an Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System

Payments firm Block, recently rebranded from Square and known from its platform Cash App, announced to further continue its plans of building an open-source Bitcoin mining system Thomas Templeton, General Manager at Block, shared the news on Twitter explaining that the company “wants to make mining more distributed and efficient in every way,..
4 years ago

Swiss SEBA Bank CEO Predicts At Least $75,000 for Bitcoin This Year

Switzerland-based crypto bank SEBA predicts that the world’s number one cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), can rise to as much as $75,000 this year Speaking with CNBC during at the Crypto Finance Conference in St Moritz, Switzerland, on Wednesday, the bank’s Chief Executive Officer, Guido Buehler, said that “Institutional money will probably..
4 years ago

Kevin “Mr Wonderful” O’Leary Positive About 2022 & Crypto

In a new interview with Yahoo Finance, Shark Tank host Kevin O’Leary said that despite the recent volatility he is not backing away from cryptocurrencies and remains bullish Furthermore, he explained Bitcoin and Ethereum’s price action by looking to some of the largest tech stocks around, who have historically also had to deal with some..
4 years ago

Checkout.com Valued at $40Billion After Series D Funding Round

Global payments firm Checkoutcom shared a $40 billion company valuation after completion of a $1 billion Series D funding round on Wednesday So far the company has raised a total of $18 billion to date The latest round saw participation from Altimeter, Dragoneer, Franklin Templeton, GIC, Insight Partners, the Qatar Investment Authority, the..
4 years ago

Crypto is FUN, WSJ Best Selling Author Dave Ramsey Says

“Crypto is FUN!” That is what business man and radio host Dave Ramsey said, speaking to Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo in promotion of his new book ‘Baby Steps Millionaires Ramsey is known for his book The Total Money Makeover, which has been on The Wall Street Journal bestsellers list for over 500 weeks According to Ramsey,..
4 years ago

Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund Launched By Jack Dorsey 13 Years After First BTC Transaction

A recent open letter published to the Bitcoin developers mailing list written by Block founder Jack Dorsey points to the establishment of a legal defense fund for open-source developers in order to protect them “from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem” The letter, co-signed by Alex Marcos (Chaincode Labs) and..
4 years ago

Visa partners with ConsenSys to Help CBDC Acceptance

Global payments platform Visa has partnered up with Ethereum scaling firm ConsenSys to speed up the adoption of central bank digital currency (CBDC) networks by bridging the gap with traditional financial institutions Eventually, Visa’s head of CBDC Catherine Gu said, users globally can use their CBDC linked Visa card or wallet by any of the..
4 years ago

Coinbase Acquires Derivates Platform FairX

Nasdaq listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the purchase of US-based derivatives platform FairX A fairly new company, FairX opened its exchange in May of 2021 and is a designated contract market (DCM) registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), fully licensed to offer futures products in the US With the..
4 years ago

A UK House Committee Says NO to CBDC

A United Kingdom’s House of Lords Committee has come to the conclusion that there is "no convincing case" for the kingdom to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) Set up in September of 2021 to explore how a CBDC affects British monetary policy, the financial sector and the role of the Bank of England, the report published by the..
4 years ago

Thailand Authorities Quickly Follow Up on Crypto Tax Confusions

Thailand authorities are responding to crypto traders’ concerns in the country as it is bumping up its crypto regulations to provide clarity on the matter Less than a week after Thailand’s government revealed its plans to levy cryptocurrency traders and miners with a 15% capital gains tax, the country’s revenue department announced..
4 years ago

“170 Active Volcanoes to Choose From” Bukele Says In Reaction to Critics

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Bitcoin President came out on Twitter to set the record straight this week on the country’s energy production and consumption, after openly being challenged With its ambitious project, Bitcoin City starting construction this year, Bukele revealed that the country has heavily invested in increasing its geothermal..
4 years ago

Iran to Use Cryptocurrencies for International Business Transactions

Iranian local media reports that the country authorities have given the green light to allow cryptocurrencies for business transaction settlements with foreign based partners As widely covered by the country’s news agencies, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) and the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade reportedly reached an agreement Citing,..
4 years ago
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