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


Metaverse to Grow to a $50B+ Market in 5 Years – New Study

Technology research and advisory firm, Technavio, released a new study which predicts popularity and upside for the Metaverse to continue to increase in the next four years Titled “Metaverse Market in Finance by Component and Geography — Forecast and Analysis 2022–2026,” the report concentrates on two aspects, software and hardware,..
4 years ago

bet365 Launching a Multi-Language Sports & Betting News Site

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar coming up in November, bet365 Sports and Betting News Manager, James Clarke, revealed exciting plans for the near future for his team and the gambling operator via the company’s LinkedIn Clarke, who joined bet365 in January of 2022 making the move after working a decade for popular British newscaster ITV..
4 years ago

“Anything Facebook Creates Now Will Misfire” – Vitalik Buterin

On Saturday, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin discussed the Metaverse after sharing a tweet from Dialektik co-founder and blockchain auditor Dean Eigenmann, who said he that the Metaverse’s potential is not as big as venture capitalist actually like to believe, as shown by their financial backings this year Buterin who agrees with..
4 years ago

Crypto Exchange Huobi Approved to Operate in Australia

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi can now start offering crypto trading services in Australia after its successful registration as a digital currency exchange provider with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), the company announced on Monday The greenlight down under follows Huobi landing regulatory approval in the..
4 years ago

Luxury Jewelry Tiffany & Co Launches $50K CryptoPunk Necklaces

American luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, Tiffany and Co is coming with an exclusive collection of CryptoPunk diamond pendants and "takes NFTs to the next level" The limited edition of 250 customized, diamond-encrusted necklaces has an asking price of 30 ETH (roughly $50,000) each Available only for CryptoPunk holders, the selling will be..
4 years ago

Fidelity Strategist: Bitcoin and Ethereum in a League of their Own

Bitcoin and Ethereum have become so successful that there is no competition for them, this according to Fidelity's lead macro strategist Jurrien Timmer Speaking with fellow macro guru, Raoul Pal, on his Real Vision channel, Timmer said that it will be impossible to overtake Bitcoin and Ethereum and compares the networks to how Apple has..
4 years ago

England Football Association (FA) to Develop NFT Platform

England’s Football Association, the FA, has revealed plans to launch a non-fungible-token (NFT) platform In a press release, the governing body said it is now looking for suitable partners to realize the project: "We have today launched a Request for Proposal [RFP] tender process to appoint a partner to build a long-term Non-Fungible Token..
4 years ago

FTX Subsidiary FZE Granted Dubai’s First MVP Licence

FTX Exchange FZE announced today that it has been approved to participate in Dubai’s Virtual Asset Minimum Viable Product (MVP) program, established by the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) A subsidiary of FTX Europe, FTX Exchange FZE (FTX) is the first Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) to receive this MVP license to operate its..
4 years ago

Dubai Grants Crypto Custodian Komainu Provisional License

Institutional digital asset custodian Komainu has received preliminary approval to operate in Dubai, the company announced Wednesday The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) license allows Komainu to offer crypto products and services to institutional clients in Dubai Komainu, looking to firmly expand its presence in the Middle..
4 years ago

Spanish Santander Bank to Offer Crypto Trading in Brazil

Spanish banking giant Santander will be rolling out crypto trading services to its Brazil clients this year As reported by local news, the bank will start to offer crypto-related services in the Latin American country, with more information to follow during the bank’s next earnings call scheduled for mid-October Mario Leao, Santander..
4 years ago

Kraken Reportedly Under Investigation for Avoiding Sanction Laws

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has reportedly been the subject of an ongoing federal investigation for allegedly violating US sanctions on Iran After the US embassy in Tehran was taken hostage in 1979, the US restricted its activities with Iran Therefore, US companies are not allowed to buy or sell goods to people in the Middle..
4 years ago

Bitcoin Bull Michael Saylor Says Incomplete Ethereum is ‘Unstable’

Notorious Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor has openly called out Ethereum’s robustness, both in terms of technical development and ethics On Wednesday, Saylor, the founder and CEO of business intelligence software firm MicroStrategy (MSTR), gave a nearly one hour-long remote presentation at the Blockchain Economy in Istanbul where he answered a..
4 years ago

Meta Again Loses Billions on Metaverse Operations in Q2

Meta Platforms has recorded another quarter of massive losses on its metaverse operations The company, that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, released its Q2 earning report on Wednesday, reporting a $281 billion loss on in its Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) operations Its augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) division, did slightly..
4 years ago

FTX.US Rolls Out Stock Trading to All U.S. Users

Company President Brett Harrison on Wednesday tweeted that FTXUS has opened up its long anticipated stock trading for users in all 50 US states https://twittercom/Brett_FTX/status/1552329303353950208 He added that the cryptocurrency exchange will now allow all users to trade hundreds of stocks and exchange-traded funds online or through the..
4 years ago

Coinbase Stock Drops 20% In a Day After Investigation Reports

With the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) probing Coinbase over allegedly allowing US customers to trade tokens that should have been registered as securities, company stock prices have taken a huge hit and plunged more than 20% since the news came out On Tuesday, Coinbase COIN stock closed with a loss of 2108% at $5293 COIN..
4 years ago

Raoul Pal is Bullish on Ethereum’s Move to Proof-of-Stake

Ethereum (ETH) could be starting to outperform Bitcoin (BTC) again once it will make its planned upgrade to a proof-of-stake system later this year According to macro expert, Raoul Pal, following the network overhaul, selling pressure will drop significantly as investors will take their ETH holdings off the market and stake them for yield In..
4 years ago

Small Crypto Transactions Exempt From Taxes in Proposed Bill

The US Senate has been introduced to a new bipartisan bill that would ease the use of cryptocurrencies in everyday purchases by creating tax exemptions for personal crypto transactions under $50 and capital gains under $50 On Tuesday, Senators Pat Toomey (R) and Kyrsten Sinema (D) proposed the new bipartisan bill in Congress called the..
4 years ago

Coinbase Looked Into by SEC Over Allegedly Listing Securities

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating Coinbase, the publicly-traded crypto exchange that they oversee, due to suspicion that the exchange allowed US persons to trade unregistered securities The regulator is looking into some of the cryptocurrencies listed on the exchange, according to Bloomberg The SEC claimed last..
4 years ago

Philippine Central Bank Says Crypto ‘Can Be Good’ as ‘Alternative to Government’

In an interview published on Friday on Forkast, the governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank of the Philippines, Felipe Medalla, shared his views on crypto One of the questions Medalla was asked was what he thought about cryptocurrencies to which he replied: "I don't want it to be banned, but I don't want to call it..
4 years ago

Q2 Bitcoin Sales of $936M Gives Tesla a $64M Gain

Tesla made $936 million in the second quarter by selling 75% of its Bitcoin holdings, according to information provided in the company's 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday The sale was good for a $64 million gain The filing detailed statements and information provided in Tesla's quarterly earnings release and call on..
4 years ago