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

Square Rebranded ‘Block’ to Better Align With Core Ambitions

Digital payments firm Square, co-founded and led by former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey, changed its corporate name to Block on Wedneday as it expands into cryptocurrency and other fintech projects The Square payments platform, founded in San Francisco by Jim McKelvey and Dorsey in 2009, will keep its name, and the public company will keep trading..
4 years ago

Crypto Adoption in Australia Jumps, Survey Tells

An Australian survey that included more than 2,000 people found that the percentage of people in the country who own or have owned crypto has grown to 288%, up from 184% in 2020 The 2021 Independent Reserve’s Cryptocurrency Index (IRCI) results point that a positive experience of those who own crypto is a strong contributor to growth in the..
4 years ago

Animoca and Binance Venture Into a $200M Blockchain Gaming Program

Hong Kong based investor in non-fungible tokens (NFT) and decentralized gaming, Animoca Brands, has launched a $200 million program in partnership with Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to invest in blockchain gaming projects built on BSC A press release on Monday detailed that the two companies will each contribute up to $100 million to invest in..
4 years ago

Crypto Exchange Binance Persists in U.K. Regulatory Compliance

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that the exchange is looking to expand to the UK within the next 18 months and possibly sooner pending a final regulatory go-ahead Despite having ceased its operations in the country earlier this year, Zhao told the Telegraph in an interview published on Saturday that his exchange plans to apply for a license..
4 years ago

FTX Releases 10 “Commandments” for Crypto Regulation

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has put forward a list of 10 principles and proposal to aide crypto regulation in the United States FTX’s proactive approach and recommendations come after Maxine Waters, the chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, recently invited several Executives of large crypto firms to testify on the topic of..
4 years ago

U.S. SEC Chair Calls For Immediate Investor Protection in Crypto Markets

Speaking at an Investor Advisory Committee meeting last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman, Gary Gensler, shared his concerns about the the cryptocurrency markets Gensler first acknowledged “Satoshi Nakamoto’s ‘Bitcoin Whitepaper’ as a catalyst for change” A similar message that he echoed in August when he said that..
4 years ago

US Treasury Secretary Yellen Weighing Pros and Cons of CBDCs

Speaking to Reuters on Thursday, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen reveals that she still has to make up her mind whether the United States should implement a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or not Yellen said that she is still waiting on the Federal Reserve’s extensive evaluation of CBDCs which Chairman Jerome Powell promised to..
4 years ago

Hackers Steal $169 Million From Crypto Exchange Bitmart

On Saturday night, a tweet from security analysis firm about an alleged hack on cryptocurrency exchange Bitmart put some people on high alert One of Bitmart’s addresses showed steady outflows of complete balances, some with a value of millions of dollars, to an address currently labeled by Etherscan as the “Bitmart Hacker” Peckshield..
4 years ago

FTX Looking to Raise Another $1.5 billion For a $32 Billion Valuation

Reported in The Information on Friday, unnamed sources “with knowledge of the matter” claim that FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is looking to raise a total of $15 billion for his cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and US affiliate, FTXUS With this new funding FTX could potentially be valued at $32 billion and FTXUS at $8 billion Six weeks..
4 years ago

Hoskinson Announces First Cardano DEX To Be Only Weeks Away

Cardano (ADA) creator Charles Hoskinson announced that decentralized exchanges on its blockchain are just weeks away In a tweet on Wednesday, Hoskinson said to be “really proud” of the team behind SundaeSwap, a decentralized trading protocol on Cardano, which will launch its testnet on Sunday, December 5th in preparation of the mainnet..
4 years ago

Bitcoin Loses 15% in Thirty Minutes on Saturday; El Salvador Buys The Dip

A tumultuous weekend for crypto trading is underway, with Bitcoin (BTC) crashing more than 15% from $52,000 to $43,500 in just thirty minutes The top cryptocurrency bounced off the bottom and is now trading at $47,402 at time of writing Amidst the biggest downfall since Bitcoin’s all-time high in the first week of November, El Salvador’s..
4 years ago

Crypto Ads Are Back On Facebook/Meta

Previously known as Facebook, Meta has announced a reversion of its 2018 decision to ban crypto advertisements on its social media platform Meta’s move is an important boost for the crypto industry which will bring crypto back into the houses of billions of users worldwide A set of rules and guidelines for crypto ads and promotions were..
4 years ago

South Korea to Push Taxation on Crypto Gains to 2023

South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) on Monday agreed with the opposition to a one-year delay in the imposition of taxation on gains from cryptocurrency trading of its citizens While it had been reported that the new legislation would not been delayed and implemented coming January, it seems that with the upcoming 2022..
4 years ago

Goldman Sachs Predicts Crypto Options Boost after 6x Growth

Wall Street banking giant, Goldman Sachs believes that with more traditional financial firms getting in on cryptocurrency, the next “hot” thing in crypto space will be more liquid options markets Speaking at a Coindesk-hosted panel on Thursday, Goldman’s Head of Crypto Trading, Andrei Kazantsev, described cryptocurrency derivatives as..
4 years ago

Bank of America Sees Huge Potential for Crypto in Metaverse

Bank of America’s strategist, Haim Israel, says that the metaverse is a massive opportunity for the use of cryptocurrencies In an interview with the Insider, published on Tuesday, he said that he expects the metaverse will take cryptocurrency mainstream Israel, the Bank of America’s managing director of research and a global strategist..
4 years ago

A “Policy-Sprint” for Crypto Banking Regulation, Morgan Stanley Notes

According to a new research note published by Morgan Stanley last week, regulations concerning the crypto banking sector will be coming sooner than expected The report says that while it is known that regulators were working on a framework, a “sense of urgency” is pushing the new rules “sooner rather than later” The Morgan Stanley note..
4 years ago

Newegg Accepts Shiba Inu for Payments and Runs Massive Ad Campaign

Major online tech retailer Newegg on Tuesday announced its plans to accept meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (SHIB) for payments The Nasdaq listed North American business will beat AMC Theatres and will already offer SHIB for payments by early December The company made the announcement with the launch of a massive billboard ad..
4 years ago

Head of Crypto Steps Down After Facebook’s Recent Meta Rebranding

Meta’s head of cryptocurrency and fintech unit Novi, David Marcus has decided to step down from his role by the end of 2021 He will be replaced by Stephane Kasriel, the former CEO of Upwork who has been at Meta, formerly known as Facebook, since August 2020 Marcus took to Twitter yesterday, unveiling the end of his seven-year long gig at..
4 years ago

PokerStars Expands F1 Presence with Red Bull Racing Partnership

Flutter Entertainment’s PokerStars is about to make another bold move and strengthen its presence in Formula 1 Racing After PokerStars Sports this summer already extended its partnership with Formula1 as the official betting sponsor until 2023, the leading gaming company has now agreed to a multi-year partnership with top team Red Bull Racing..
4 years ago

Grayscale Launches New Solana Trust

Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has announced its Grayscale Solana Trust on Tuesday The firm’s sixteenth investment vehicle will be passively invested in Solana and is available to eligible individual and accredited institutional investors Solana has had a massive year to date From around $150 in January its price has exploded to..
4 years ago
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