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

“The story hasn’t gone anywhere. This crypto revolution has happened”, Mike Novogratz CEO of Galaxy Digital reassures

Mike Novogratz, Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy Digital says that the story of crypto has not changed as a result of the recent selloffs and is convinced “the crypto revolution has happened” While the past “liquidation event” was undoubtedly a setback, Novogratz remains bullish on Bitcoin’s future In an interview with CNBC this..
5 years ago

U.S. businesses are soon required to report crypto transactions over $10,0000 to the IRS

The United States government is increasing compliance enforcement around cryptocurrency Coming soon, if you are transacting $10,000 or more worth of crypto at a time via exchanges or banking services, the IRS will want to know about it The United States Treasury department released a report  on Thursday that outlined the Biden..
5 years ago

Dutch Central Bank reverses crypto KYC measures after court rules in favor of Bitonic

It is no longer a requirement for Dutch cryptocurrency exchanges to verify wallet addresses of its customers after De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) reversed their policy in a May 20 announcement Bitonic crypto exchange had taken the central bank of the Netherlands to court in January in objection of the so called ‘whitelisting’ policy  Since..
5 years ago

Tesla has “diamond hands” as a ‘short squeeze’ contributed to Wednesday’s crash

While the crypto markets took a hard hit on Wednesday with Bitcoin and other currencies losing over 30%, the public is looking for answers So what caused this hurt and made $500 billion disappear into thin air so suddenly It is hard to consider one determining factor as there seem to have been multiple overlapping events leading to the recent..
5 years ago

Bitcoin will still go to $500,000, Ark Investment CEO says

Cathie Wood, Chief Executive Officer at Ark Investment Management said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Wednesday that Bitcoin will go to $500,000 She made the statement amidst Wednesday’s crash dropping Bitcoin’s price close to $30,000 https://twittercom/BloombergLive/status/1395055770924896264 After its fifth straight day dropping,..
5 years ago

Did Elon Musk create Bitcoin? Australians think so, according to new survey by Finder

Following a recent survey conducted by Australia’s Finder, it appears that Australians' knowledge of cryptocurrency needs to be lifted Surprisingly, over half of the respondents think that Elon Musk created Bitcoin Australia’s most visited comparison website questioned 1,004 Australians on their crypto knowledge Finder’s survey is timed..
5 years ago

Bitcoin deep in red after overnight nosedive

Crypto has been taking another “hit” as Bitcoin is down almost another 10% in the past 24 hours and trying to hold the $40,000 level The combined crypto market is down 8% and is valued just below $2 trillion Bitcoin’s ongoing price correction extended to more than 35% compared to its all time high not too long ago of almost $65,000..
5 years ago

U.S. banks to “cut 10% of jobs in historical layoffs”

Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo is predicting the largest “reduction in US bank headcount in history” According to Mayo, US banks are expected to cut 200,000 jobs or 10% of its employees in the next decade The layoffs would be a direct consequence of rising competition from fintech and non-bank financial institutions and banks striving to..
5 years ago

Vitalik Buterin burns 90% of Shiba Inu worth $6.7 billion

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has burned 90% of his Shiba Inu (SHIB) holdings for an amount worth around $67 billion Buterin previously was given half of SHIB’s total supply, in what appeared to be a marketing stunt by the creators of yet another meme-coin 410 trillion tokens were sent to a dead blockchain address late on Sunday,..
5 years ago

Bitcoin takes another plunge after Musk’s ‘trolling’

Bitcoin has taken another massive drop to near $42,441 Sunday evening after Tesla CEO Elon Musk was seen ‘trolling’ on Twitter The self declared 'Dogefather' did not outright deny that his vehicle company has sold or could soon sell all of its Bitcoin holdings  Musk has been receiving tons of criticism in the past days after he announced the..
5 years ago

Ripple files a new memorandum to counter SEC in its lawsuit

Ripple Labs has filed a new legal memorandum in an attempt to counter previous motions from the US Securities and Exchange Commission in its ongoing lawsuit In the memo Ripple claims that the SEC has misquoted its statements in earlier attempts to dismiss Ripple’s defense The memo is the latest development in the ongoing lawsuit that the SEC..
5 years ago

Will adopting cryptocurrency help Cuba deal with its economic turmoil?

Looking to deal with economic malaise in the country, the president of Cuba – Miguel Díaz Canel – is considering cryptocurrency to provide a helping hand Just a few weeks after the Cuban authorities started discussing the implementation of digital assets in the economy, they are moving forward Crypto adoption is currently being reviewed by..
5 years ago

Cardano trading all-time highs with Alonzo upgrade coming closer

With only little time left before Cardano’s long awaited Alonzo upgrade will come live, the cryptocurrency has impressively surged to the number 4 spot on the list of cryptocurrencies This comes roughly three and-a-half years after it established itself as a top 5 player Following a 20% surge in just 24 hours, it even stayed on third for a..
5 years ago

Ray Dalio says Bitcoin’s success poses its “biggest risk”

Founder of Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio has warned about the success of cryptocurrencies at the Wall Street Journal “Future of Everything Festival” this week He said that its success poses its biggest risk and that regulators could possibly come down tough on the crypto industry Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund,..
5 years ago

Bitcoin miner Greenidge commits to being “carbon neutral”

Bitcoin miner Greenidge Generation Holdings has announced on Friday that from June 1, its operations will be “carbon neutral” The announcement follows after recent uproar about mining’s environmental impact https://twittercom/GreenidgeLLC/status/1393244960640491524 The New York based miner said that it will offset all greenhouse gas..
5 years ago

Tesla to Replace Bitcoin with Dogecoin as Coinbase Lists the Meme-Based Cryptocurrency

Elon Musk surely is dominating the crypto scene with his Twitter activity as of late Just a day after Musk informed the world that Tesla would not be accepting Bitcoin for payment of its electric vehicles, he is now hinting that perhaps DOGE will replace the top cryptocurrency for transactions According to Musk’s latest tweet, he is..
5 years ago

MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor strikes back and announces purchase of an additional 271 Bitcoin

On the heels of Tesla’s announcement to suspend Bitcoin payments for vehicle payments over environmental concerns, MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor shared on Twitter that his company had purchased an additional 271 BTC, at a cost of $55,387 per coin The company now holds over 90,000..
5 years ago

Bitcoin is “durable” according to BlackRock’s Rick Rieder

Rick Rieder, Chief Investment Officer at the world's largest asset manager BlackRock, is unmoved by Tesla’s recent announcement to suspend Bitcoin payments Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Thursday, Rieder provided a short breakdown of current affairs  According to the CIO, Bitcoin still has some hurdles to overcome as it has “not..
5 years ago

Tesla decides to suspend accepting Bitcoin as payment and unleashes a Twitter frenzy

Bitcoin fell to its lowest point in almost three weeks on Wednesday evening after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that his company will stop accepting bitcoin as a form of payment This following concerns regarding the “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal” Although Musk believes that..
5 years ago

NYDIG survey shows that 47 million U.S. citizens hold Bitcoin

New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) recently published a new survey that shows that a whopping 46 million Americans are holding Bitcoin This accounts to nearly 17% of the adult US population Survey results were shared in Newsweek The survey included a national sample of 1050 US crypto investors with a minimum of $50,000 in annual income A..
5 years ago
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