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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  • iGaming
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Peter's latest articles

Crypto.com Gets Approval from UK Financial Regulator

Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptocom has been given approval to operate in the United Kingdom The Singapore headquartered digital asset firm was given a license by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, the updated register of the British regulator revealed on Tuesday According to the register, Cryptocom is mentioned in two registrations under..
4 years ago

Largest Brokerage in Brazil XP Starts Crypto Trading Services

Brazil’s largest brokerage firm by market value has launched crypto trading services Serving 36 million customers, XP expects to reach 200,000 active crypto users by the end of the year with its new platform named XTAGE, the company said on Monday XTAGE currently offers the possibility to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum but the team will expand..
4 years ago

Revolut Gets Approval to Offer Crypto Services to European Users

European digital bank Revolut, with 20 million customers worldwide, has been approved by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CYSEC) to offer Bitcoin and crypto services across the European Economic Area (EEA) The EEA consists the 27 countries that are in the European Union, with the addition of Iceland, Liechtenstein and..
4 years ago

In a few Years It Won’t Matter at What Price You Bought Bitcoin

Appearing on CNBC last Friday, founding partner global asset management firm Skybridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci, shared a positive outlook for cryptocurrencies and in particular Bitcoin Within six years, the Skybridge founder said, the price of Bitcoin will be over 10x of today’s price: “In the next six years, if we are right, if..
4 years ago

Will Ethereum Become THE Environmental Crypto Asset?

Ethereum (ETH) is looking to emerge as an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly crypto asset, following the blockchain’s planned Merge” in September, Citigroup said in a research note The upgrade which will change the network from a proof-of-work (PoW) system to the rather environmentally friendly proof-of-stake (PoS) will bring..
4 years ago

Privacy Cryptocurrency Monero Completes Major Upgrade

One of cryptocurrency’s most popular privacy protocols, Monero, on Sunday August 14th successfully completed its undisputed hard fork The fork occurred at block 2,688,888 and added some major new privacy features to the network The update increases the number of signers for ring signatures per transaction from 11 to 16 Ring signatures are..
4 years ago

Real Madrid & FC Barcelona File for Joint Metaverse Trademark

European Football powerhouses Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have filed a joint trademark application related to the Metaverse Trademark attorney Michael Kondoudis tweeted the news on Thursday https://twittercom/KondoudisLaw/status/1557692551972413440 The joint venture's branding logo is a giant "C" with the logos of the two teams on either..
4 years ago

New Digital Assets Firms in the Philippines Must Wait 3 Years for VASP License

Starting the beginning of next month, the Philippines' central bank (Bangko Sentral) will put a hold on the processing of applications for new virtual asset services providers (VASP) licenses in the country According to a memo released on Wednesday, the suspension of reviews will be for a period of three years in which the Bangko Sentral will..
4 years ago

Iran Steps Into Crypto with First $10 Million Import Order

Iran has surprised friend and foe by reporting through Iranian state media that the country will officially step into crypto later this year The largest country in the Middle East has placed an import order of USD 10 million, which will be paid from the mining revenues that the country has generated Iran legalized cryptocurrencies back in 2019,..
4 years ago

FTX Pay Integrates with Reddit Community Points

Crypto platform FTX on Tuesday announced that FTX Pay’s infrastructure has been integrated into the community points system of social media and news aggregator forum Reddit The integration is available in the US, EU, Australia and other countries around the world In a press statement, FTX highlighted that “Reddit Community Points are a..
4 years ago

BlackRock Teaming Up with Coinbase Could Double Bitcoin Price

Cathie Wood, founder and CEO/CIO of ARK Invest believes that BlackRock’s new partnership with crypto giant Coinbase could shake up crypto prices especially Bitcoin In a new YouTube video speaking to her 542,000 audience, Wood discussed a study her company did on big corporations entering the crypto space While institutions are eager to get in..
4 years ago

Solana a Sleeping Giant, FTX CEO Hints in New Interview

Sam Bankman-Fried, chief executive officer of crypto derivatives trading platform FTX turns to Solana as one asset holding the most potential Speaking with Fortune magazine, the crypto billionaire  said that the dubbed Ethereum (ETH) killer Solana (SOL) is possibly the most underrated token being traded right now “Most underrated token..
4 years ago

Bitcoin and Surf Boosting El Salvador’s Tourism

The world’s first Bitcoin president, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said that the speed of which tourism in his country was able to recover post-covid, was the result of three factors: Bitcoin, a decreasing crime rate and being home to some of the best waves surfers can imagine Bukele said on Twitter: "Only a handful of countries have been..
4 years ago

Meta Rolls Out Instagram NFT Integration for 100 Countries

Social media giant Meta has started rolling out non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in 100 countries after integrating with Coinbase wallet and Dapper Details of the launch were elaborated on in a Meta Newsroom post Instagram users in certain countries can now showcase their NFTs after a beta phase was successfully concluded in May According to a..
4 years ago

BlackRock and Coinbase Bring Crypto Trading to Elite Clients

Nasdaq traded crypto exchange Coinbase and the world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock, with over $85 trillion under management, have teamed up to to make cryptocurrencies directly available to large institutional investors According to a company blogpost on Thursday, institutional clients of BlackRock’s end-to-end investment management..
4 years ago

Europe’s Security Watchdog Digging into Crypto Transactions

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is going to increase its scrutiny on transactions involving cryptocurrencies, according to a public tender issued by the watchdog The authority is seeking suppliers who can provide trading data on crypto transactions, including spot trades and derivatives, according to Reuters ESMA will..
4 years ago

Letting go 23% of its Staff Robinhood Still has $6 Billion To Spend

A day after trading platform Robinhood announced to make 23% of its staff redundant after it already let go 9% previously in April, company CEO Vlad Tenev dismissed rumors of crypto giant FTX taking over the business With FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried having secured a 76% stake in Robinhood in May, this fueled speculation of FTX taking over the..
4 years ago

Binance Co-Founder Yi He Leading $7.5B Venture Capital Arm

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance, on Wednesday announced that co-founder Yi He will be heading Binance Labs, its venture capital (VC) arm and incubator Leading the global strategy and day-to-day operations at Binance Labs, the largest crypto VC with $75 billion of assets under management, Yi is driven to..
4 years ago

Rumors of Ethereum Spinoff ETHPOW Emerge Before PoS Shift

With Ethereum’s shift to a new proof-of-stake system planned for September, there is already speculation that some Ethereum miners will break away to stick to the proof-of-work system that the network uses now A tweet from Chinese crypto miner Chandler Guo hinted towards a a campaign for an Ethereum fork The crypto miner has also come up with..
4 years ago

Bitcoin Bull Michael Saylor Steps Down as MicroStrategy CEO

On Tuesday, one of the world’s most outspoken Bitcoin advocates, Michael Saylor has announced to step down from his role as MicroStrategy Chief Executive Officer and will continue as executive chairman of the business intelligence firm that he founded himself in 1989 Saylor started making a name for himself in the past years, when his firm..
4 years ago
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