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.

EXPERTISE

  • Crypto
  • Poker
  • iGaming
  • Casino

Peter's latest articles

SEC Pushing for Redaction of Hinman Documents in Ripple Lawsuit

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States has sought that the infamous Hinman Speech papers be sealed, arguing that they are irrelevant to the court's summary judgment ruling On December 22, the SEC filed a Motion to Seal Summary Judgment Document, demanding the sealing of certain material and documents, most notably the..
3 years ago

Extreme Winter Weather Disrupts BTC Mining

Over the weekend, miners across the United States shut down as a strong storm moved across North America The Bitcoin mining hashrate, a measure of computational power on the blockchain, fell by around 100 exahash per second (EH/s), or 40%, between December 21 and December 24, according to BTCcom As of December 25, it had restored to around 250..
3 years ago

Paxful P2P Crypto Exchange Delists “Fiat Currency” Ethereum

Paxful, a peer-to-peer crypto market platform, has announced the delisting of Ethereum (ETH), claiming that it is simply another kind of fiat currency According to a Twitter post by Ray Youssef, co-founder of the New York-based crypto exchange, the firm is delisting Ethereum owing to a lack of decentralization caused by the top smart contract..
3 years ago

Twitter’s Search Tool Now Includes BTC and ETH Price Indexes.

Twitter has implemented a new cryptocurrency tool that allows users to check the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) by just putting their names or tickers into the search bar The new feature is an enhancement to "$Cashtags" and was revealed on December 21 by the Twitter Business account People will be able to see a clickable link that..
3 years ago

Bankman-Fried Close to Extradition to US

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has signed the appropriate paperwork to begin the extradition process, according to the New York Pos The post got the news from Doan Cleare, the acting commissioner of prisons at Fox Hill Prison in The Bahamas Following his arrest last week, Bankman-Fried is..
3 years ago

Nextgen Crypto Token Unicoin Raises $250 Million in Presale

Unicoin revealed that it had raised $250 million through its pre-sale of Unicoins to private individuals and businesses This shows that the crypto market can survive with next-generation, asset-backed, and regulated currencies that provide investors actual value and represents a rise of $50 million in less than two months The instability of..
3 years ago

Donald Trump Slaps Critics, NFT Series Sold Out in One Day

After being targeted over his latest NFT series by those opposing him, Trump has smashed his critics by selling all NFTs and raising the prices per collectible in resale An estimated $5 million was raised with the auction The day after its first release, ex-President Donald Trump's 45,000 pieces large non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading..
3 years ago

Jack Dorsey Donates 14 BTC to Social Media Protocol ‘Nostr’

Jack Dorsey contributed around 14 Bitcoin (BTC) (approximately $245,000) to the creation of Nostr (short for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) Following the announcement that Jack Dorsey will give $1 million per year to the encrypted messaging app Signal, Koty Auditore turned to Twitter to ask Dorsey to finance Nostr, following a..
3 years ago

Animoca Brands Expands Portfolio with NFT Fantasy Football

Investor in non-fungible tokens (NFT) and blockchain gaming, Animoca Brands, has ventured into NFT Fantasy Football after a new collaboration with Low6 and SPORTFIVE Low6, the award-winning leader in sports gamification, has collaborated with global sports marketing agency SPORTFIVE and Be Media, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, to deliver an..
3 years ago

Donald Trump Launches Series of NFT Trading Cards

Former President Donald Trump announced the release of 45,000 fantasy non-fungible tokens (NFT) on Thursday through Truth Social, the social media platform he launched last year The Trump Digital Trading Cards, according to the collection's website, include photographs of the president in the form of collectible baseball cards The Polygon..
3 years ago

Germany Wants Synchronized Global Crypto Regulations

Germany's financial regulator is pushing for a global framework on cryptocurrency regulation Since national regulations are inadequate and that a strong, unified approach is needed to ensure that the cryptocurrency markets are secure and transparent As reported by Reuters, the president of Germany’s BaFin, Mark Branson, has said that a..
3 years ago

FSB Plans to Roll Out New Global Framework for Crypto in 2023

According to reports, a worldwide regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies would be implemented by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the largest financial services regulator in the world, in the first quarter of 2023 In the next months, the FSB will set a timeframe for the adoption of global crypto regulations, which local governments would..
3 years ago

Binance Pay Now Available in the United States

Binance today made its payment service Binance Pay available to users in the United States With the help of Binance Pay, users may instantly and for free send, request, and receive roughly 150 different crypto currencies from other users At a time when cryptocurrency trading volumes are at two-year lows, Binance has dropped trading fees for..
3 years ago

Bahamas Police Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried

According to a news release, the Royal Bahamas Police Force detained FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried The arrest happened after the US filed criminal charges against Bankman-Fried, according to the statement, and the country expects the US to seek that Bankman-Fried be extradited from The Bahamas soon Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis..
3 years ago

El Salvador’s ‘Bet’ Will Pay Off & 2 Key Drivers to New Bitcoin Rally

According to venture entrepreneur Tim Draper, Bitcoin (BTC) would certainly convert El Salvador from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries in the world In a recent interview with prominent crypto bull Anthony Pompliano, the billionaire forecasts that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's choice to invest in the flagship..
3 years ago

Reports of Indian Study on Taxation of iGaming Industry Postponed

The results of a panel of finance ministers from India's states charged with crafting a recommended report on taxing the thriving online gaming business have yet to be released According to a senior administration official, the study will be essential in making a final decision on how the tax would be collected However, the panel is unlikely..
3 years ago

Step App Launches – Big Announcement with Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt, the eight time Olympic gold medalist winner announced the release of the move-to-earn app, Step A press release detailed that this happened at a conference in front of a community of builders, entrepreneurs, investors, key stakeholders, and fitness fanatics gathered in Japan to exhibit Step's move-to-earn Web3 app Bolt, the..
3 years ago

Coinbase Asks Users to swap USDT to its ‘Own’ USDC Citing Consumer Safety

In a new campaign highlighting the quality of reserves that underpin Circle-owned USD Coin (USDC), Coinbase is eliminating conversion costs for consumers who want to move to a "trusted and reputable digital dollar" USDC was co-founded by Coinbase Coinbase wrote in a blog post published Friday morning Asia time that recent events have put..
3 years ago

PayPal Enters Luxembourg with Crypto Services

PayPal said Wednesday that it will expand its crypto service to Luxembourg in the coming days, in what might be the payments company's first venture into the European Union Once the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rule takes effect, Luxembourg, which is home to PayPal's EU headquarters, might act as a gateway for the rest of the EU's 26 member..
3 years ago

Nifty Gateway Announces Multichain Integration with ImmutableX

Nifty Gateway, the premium marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), announced today that its native integration with top web3 gaming platform ImmutableX (IMX) is now live, marking the first step in the platform's transition to a multichain platform Following the integration, ImmutableX-powered NFTs will be available on Nifty Gateway,..
3 years ago
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