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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  • Crypto
  • Poker
  • iGaming
  • Casino

Peter's latest articles

Bitcoin’s ‘Taproot’ Upgrade Is Live As Price Goes Up

Bitcoin’s long awaited and most significant network update since 2017, Taproot, was activated this Saturday Taproot is a soft fork to the Bitcoin network and betters privacy and scripting capabilities With its activation, the update also enables a Merkelized Abstract Tree (MAST), which makes smart contracts more efficient and private by only..
4 years ago

Goldman Sachs: Gold Losing to Bitcoin and Becoming “The Poor Man’s Crypto”

The Head of Energy Research at Goldman Sachs, Damian Courvalin, spoke to Bloomberg on Thursday, discussing the state of gold and crypto amidst global developments Amidst fears of inflation only continuing to increase, Courvalin can see funds starting to go from gold into Bitcoin When asked if there are any tells whether investors are fleeing to..
4 years ago

Former Citi CEO Expects All Major Banks In On Crypto within 3 Years

Former Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup, Vikram Pandit, said during the Singapore Fintech Festival last week that he expects every major bank in the world to be considering crypto trading services Speaking about the outlook for crypto and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) at the event, the banker also said he hopes that central banks..
4 years ago

VanEck’s Spot Bitcoin ETF Rejected by SEC

A first spot Bitcoin exchange traded funds in the United States remains uncertain as on Friday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially disapproved VanEck’s spot Bitcoin ETF months after the firm applied for it in June In a filing on Friday, the SEC denied a proposed rule change from the Cboe BZX Exchange to list and..
4 years ago

Michael Saylor to Investors: Buy Bitcoin!

Michael Saylor, Chief Executive Officer of MicroStrategy and notorious Bitcoin bull is advising investors to put their money in Bitcoin and that the top cryptocurrency beats traditional assets like gold, stocks and bonds any day Speaking with the director of business development investments firm SkyBridge Capital, John Darsie, Saylor reflects..
4 years ago

AMC Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Online Payments

The largest movie theatre chain in the US, AMC Theatres, will allow Bitcoin, Ether and other cryptocurrencies for online payments Following reports in August, and twitter polls of AMC’s CEO Adam Aron, AMC announced that is soon accepting crypto for tickets and other purchases The service is now in place and will be live later in the year,..
4 years ago

Author of “The Big Reset” Warns of Superinflation as Central Banks Have Lost All Control

In an interview on Stansberry Research on Thursday, Dutchman Willem Middelkoop and author of "The Big Reset” warned people to take their money out of the banks and that their “money is dying” Central banks have lost all control on monetary policy and people should put their money into gold, Bitcoin or real estate, he said, far out of reach..
4 years ago

Bitcoin Jumps to New High as U.S. Inflation Hits 6.2%

After passing a $3 trillion market cap yesterday, with Bitcoin making another all-time high of $68,74231, the crypto market started to hand over some of it gains Although the announced Consumer Price Index figures initially made crypto prices surge, the past twelve hours saw markets decline, with most of the top 10 cryptocurrencies registering..
4 years ago

First Crypto-Linked Mastercards in Asia-Pacific Region

International payments giant Mastercard announced on Monday to have partnered with three crypto service providers in the Asia-Pacific region Together they are “to launch the region’s first crypto-linked payment cards” The partners are Amber Group and Bitkub in Thailand, and Coinjar in Australia The three are all cryptocurrency exchanges..
4 years ago

After China, Huobi Exchange Now Leaves Singapore

In an effort to comply with regulations by local financial authorities, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Huobi Global, is ceasing operation in Singapore Shortly after exiting mainland China, Huobi has decided it will shut down accounts of all Singapore-based users by the end of March 2022 The exchange made the..
4 years ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook Reveals He Owns Bitcoin

In an interview today, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that he has Bitcoin holdings when he was asked the question during the DealBook conference Cook said: “I do I think it’s reasonable to own it as part of a diversified portfolio I’m not giving anyone investment advice by the way” Cook went on and explained that he had been interested..
4 years ago

Jack Dorsey’s Square Is Only Interested in Bitcoin

During the company’s Q3 earnings call on Friday, Square strengthened its commitment to Bitcoin and that is not much interested in other cryptocurrencies or projects in the space Chief Executive Officer revealed there are a number of projects in the pipeline and the future to be exciting During the call, the company shared hat its mobile payment..
4 years ago

Ripple Launches Crypto Service for Financial Enterprises

Ripple Labs announced on Tuesday that it will launch a new “Liquidity Hub” product to aide enterprise customers access BTC, ETH, LTC, ETC, BCH and XRP from a number of crypto exchanges, market makers and OTC desks The San Francisco-based fintech company is currently in a skirmish with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over..
4 years ago

Dubai Bitcoin Miner Announces $650 Million Purchase of Mining Rigs

Accounting for one of its largest purchases on record, a $650 million order for crypto mining rigs was announced by UAE-based Phoenix Technology Consultants Chief Executive Officer Munaf Ali said at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS), which just started in Dubai, that delivery of the “new generation” machines will begin in 2022 In..
4 years ago

Bitcoin Records a New All-Time High past $68K

The price of Bitcoin, the world's top cryptocurrency, reached another all-time high on Tuesday morning Shooting past the $68,000 mark taking hold of its momentum, the top asset recorded $68,53034 according to CoinMarketCap data The crypto markets are in the middle of a huge bull run, which kicked of early October reaching an all time high over..
4 years ago

Poland’s Largest Crypto Exchange Rebrands to Zonda

Poland’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, BitBay has rebranded to Zonda and also hired a new Chief Executive Officer to kickstart its European expansion Zonda, holding a crypto license to operate across the EU, has over a million users and is on track to secure a license in Switzerland Next up will be the UK and Canada according to the new..
4 years ago

Congress Needs to Issue Clear Guidelines on Crypto, Ripple CEO Says

Ripple Labs executives are reaching out to Congress to provide transparent crypto regulations amidst Ripple’s legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over XRP Following a report in the New York Times earlier in the week of federal agencies requesting Congress to give them more authority to regulate stablecoins,..
4 years ago

Sweden Considers Bitcoin Mining in Violation of Paris Climate Agreement

The financial supervisory authority of Sweden, Finansinspektionen, has recently called for a ban on crypto mining as it considers it burdensome to climate With cryptocurrency mining requiring large amounts of electricity, crypto miners continue to move towards renewable energy sources aware of its carbon footprint Strangely enough, Sweden..
4 years ago

Bakkt Announces Ethereum Support

NYSE listed digital asset manager, Bakkt has announced to soon be offering Ethereum (ETH) alongside Bitcoin The subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), started its product offerings three years ago in August 2018 On Friday, Bakkt revealed that its customers and partners will soon have the ability to buy, sell, and hold Ethereum Bakkt..
4 years ago

$1.2 Trillion Bill Now In Front of U.S. President Biden for Signature

The proposed $12 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill has passed the United States House of Representatives with 228 votes in favor and 206 against and is now in front of the US President If signed into law by President Biden, it would have significant effect on the country’s crypto space with new provisions enforced in relation to..
4 years ago
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