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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NFT Collectors & Football Manager Game Sorare Partners with Spanish LaLiga

Spanish top soccer league LaLiga announced a partnership with Sorare to offer fans with NFTs of all players The Spanish League was one of the leagues still missing in the game and collectors/managers will be happy with the deal being finalized The soccer digital cards marketplace, built on the Ethereum blockchain, Sorare has signed a..
5 years ago

Latest Survey Shows 27% of Americans Want Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Amid the backdrop of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law successfully having kicked off this Tuesday, Sept 7, a new poll shows that 27% of Americans would support a decision of the government acknowledging Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender It was research and data analytics firm YouGov that queried 4,912 US residents, with 27% of respondents being..
5 years ago

Robin Hood Enables Commission-Free “Dollar-Cost Averaging”

On Wednesday, Robinhood trading platform rolled out a new feature that will enable recurring crypto investments for its customers They can now purchase as little as $1 in crypto commission-free daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly This strategy, also called “dollar-cost averaging“, is made possible in order to “help smooth out the price..
5 years ago

U.S. SEC Threatens To Sue Coinbase For Its “Lend” Program

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase revealed that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to sue the company over its yet-to-be-launched “Lend” program Coinbase had been in discussions with the SEC over its program for almost six months and despite these ongoing talks, the SEC issued Coinbase a “Wells Notice” A Wells..
5 years ago

Hoskinson Fights Off Criticism Ahead of Alonzo Upgrade

Ahead of Cardano’s much anticipated Alonzo mainnet launch on September 12, Charles Hoskinson, the founder of the token, took to Twitter to comment on recent criticism doing rounds on social media While criticism and FUD is nothing new for them, the third largest crypto network has had to put up with attacks of which the latest to come from..
5 years ago

Leading Exchange FTX Now Offers NFT Mining & Trading

Amidst booming demand for NFTs, the latest crypto business to get on board is leading cryptocurrency exchange FTX Following a recent announcement made by Sam Bankfman-Fried, the exchange’s Chief Executive Officer, users of the exchange now have the possibility to create their own artworks and mint them into NFTs According to the FTX CEO,..
5 years ago

Visa Announces Big Plans for Crypto Services in Brazil

Multi-national payments and credit card giant Visa is bringing cryptocurrency solutions to traditional banking platforms in Brazil In an announcement made on Monday the company disclosed that it is working with several crypto businesses in the country to bring cryptocurrency payment cards to the market It also hinted at Bitcoin (BTC) integration,..
5 years ago

Panama Congressman Gabriel Silva Introduces a Crypto Law

After his commitment to present a bill that could potentially spearhead the adoption of cryptocurrencies as legal tender back in June, Panama congressman Gabriel Silva proofs he is a man of his word On Monday, Silva presented his Crypto Law project as he made the announcement in a video Although Silva surely is a proponent of Bitcoin, his..
5 years ago

September 7, #BitcoinDay in El Salvador

Today, Tuesday September 7 2021, Bitcoin will become legal tender in El Salvador In advance of the Bitcoin law taking effect, the Salvadoran government has started buying bitcoin The first 400 coins have been purchased and “a lot more” are coming, according to President Nayib Bukele El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, made the..
5 years ago

Bitcoin Mining and Oil Production, a Winning Combination?

A vehicle warehouse in Houston, Texas, served as meeting point for several oil producers and bitcoin miners last week They gathered to examine the possibilities of on-site mining that Texas energy producers could bring for them The meetup, that happened in a vehicle warehouse in Houston, served as a point of encounter to examine these..
5 years ago

Bitcoin Holding Firmly Above $50,000 as “Supply Shock” Indicates More to Come

Bitcoin (BTC) is holding firmly at $51,800 at time of writing and is up about 7% over the past week After the top cryptocurrency traded in a very tight range throughout the weekend, on chain analyst Willy Woo highlighted on Twitter what is called the “supply shock” metric, which simply is the unavailable BTC supply divided by the available BTC..
5 years ago

Binance Cuts Singapore Exposure after Warning from Regulator

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is significantly decreasing its exposure to the Singapore crypto market Just days after the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the exchange may be in violation of the country’s Payment Services Act, Binance announced it is removing SGD trading pairs and payment options It will also remove its app from..
5 years ago

Crypto Companies Only Given 1% of Fines Issued in Traditional Finance

Media, news outlets and politics have often highlighted regulators’ actions against projects in the crypto space, thereby misrepresenting the industry However, these fines issued are only a fraction of those traditional financial institutions had to deal with While both major banks and crypto exchanges have often been penalized for securities..
5 years ago

Financial Giant SBI to Launch Japan’s First Crypto Fund

One of Japan’s largest financial conglomerates, SBI Holdings Inc is launching a cryptocurrency fund by the end of November As reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, it will be the country’s first crypto fund Tomoya Asakura, director of SBI Asset Management and president of SBI affiliate Morningstar Japan, said that the fund will invest in a..
5 years ago

Bitcoin to $100,000 Will Face Least Resistance, Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone Says

After a couple of days testing the psychological barrier of $50,000, Bitcoin (BTC) has successfully managed to break past At time of writing, BTC is trading at $50,350 with a market cap of $946 billion Trends show that bulls still have complete control of the crypto market in a revived bull market In the most recent release of the Bloomberg..
5 years ago

Binance US to Go Public Within Three Years

It is likely that the US arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is going public within three years In an interview with The Information this week, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that his exchange “is just going to do what Coinbase did,” hinting at an initial public offering (IPO) Coinbase went public on Nasdaq..
5 years ago

Judge Netburn Orders Ripple to Retrieve 1 Million Slack Messages

Ripple is to hand over one million missing Slack messages between its employees which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sought to access This as US Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn has ordered Ripple's defense challenged the order and said that complying would cost them up to $1 million The judge nonetheless believes the messages..
5 years ago

Bitcoin and Ethereum Addresses on Your Twitter Profile Soon?

Although not official yet, it appears that Twitter is developing a functionality that allows users to include Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) addresses to their profiles And this option is coming soon Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey already hinted in June that the platform was considering to integrate Bitcoin to the platform The latest ‘rumor’..
5 years ago

Crypto a “Truly Global” Asset Class, SEC Chairman Tells European Parliament

Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, spoke before the European Parliament on Wednesday and offered his policy recommendations on the regulation of crypto assets Speaking to the Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Gensler pointed to impact of financial technologies on globalizing..
5 years ago

Half of US Consumers Have Invested in Crypto, Study Shows

Consumers in the United States have en masse shifted their investments into crypto A recent survey by regulated digital asset platform Bakkt shows that almost half of surveyed consumers in the US have put some money in cryptocurrencies in the last six months The report notes: “Nearly half (48%) of US consumers reported investing money in..
5 years ago
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