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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Binance Mandated to Stop Derivatives Trading in Spain

The Spanish securities regulator CNMV, is increasingly putting pressure on cryptocurrency exchanges in the country that offer derivatives trading in the country The world’s biggest exchange by trading volume, Binance, has been mandated by the regulator to let go of its offering of cryptocurrency-related derivatives, such as futures contracts..
4 years ago

Block Falls Short of Q1 Estimates, Records $1.73B in Bitcoin Transactions

Formerly known as Square, fintech and digital payments giant Block (SQ), reported its first-quarter results on Thursday with figures that missed the analysts’ expectations While analysts were expecting $41 billion, total revenue for the quarter was $396 billion Leaving out Bitcoin, total net revenue was $223 billion, an increase of 44%..
4 years ago

Valkyrie’s Gets SEC Approval for Bitcoin Futures ETF

Good news for Valkyrie which had its XBTO Bitcoin Futures Fund approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Its the latest crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) that received the green light from the regulator Nevertheless, it is not the holy grail of ETF approvals A long-awaited Bitcoin Spot ETF is still not available in the US and..
4 years ago

Binance, Sequioa Capital and Andreesen Horowitz Chip In to Help Elon Musk Finance Twitter Takeover

With CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao calling it a “small contribution to the cause”, cryptocurrency exchange Binance has chipped in $500 million to help Elon Musk finance his $44 billion Twitter takeover In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, the world's largest crypto exchange by volume was in the list..
4 years ago

Solana Pay Adds New Transaction Request Feature for Merchants

According to a post by Solana developers, Solana Pay will start facilitating transaction requests between merchants and users with a recently launched new feature on the protocol A transaction request feature was added for merchants to send customized transaction links to users, for example unique non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or virtual..
4 years ago

Billions of New Users Joining the Crypto Space – Macro Guru Raoul Pal

Macro guru and former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal expects billions of new cryptocurrency users joining within ten years In a new episode on his own Real Vision Finance YouTube channel, Pal discusses recession and inflation with the help of historical data comparing crypto adoption rates versus those of the early years of the internet He..
4 years ago

Nothing Better Than Bitcoin, the World’s Most Dominant Future Currency

In a recent episode of the ‘What Bitcoin Did’ podcast, hosted by the “King of Bedford” Peter McCormack, macro strategist Lyn Alden expects Bitcoin (BTC) to become the most dominant currency and thereby will surpassing all other digital currencies Alden believes that the race for dominance is one between BTC and central bank digital..
4 years ago

Bitcoin City On Hold as Salvadoran Bitcoin Bonds are Pushed Back

The launch date of the Salvadoran Bitcoin (BTC) bonds, which would finance the development of Bitcoin City, is still unknown With an expected release earlier in the year, El Salvador’s Treasure Minister Alejandro Zelaya pushed the launch back due to the Russia-Ukraine war at a time of already unfavorable market conditions Currently, Zelaya..
4 years ago

Coinbase’s Purchase of Brazilian Mercado Bitcoin Off The Table for Now

Coinbase and the parent company of Mercado Bitcoin, Brazilian 2TM, have reportedly stopped talks involving the Nasdaq listed crypto exchange buying the firm As reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday, 2TM and Coinbase ceased discussions around the US-based crypto exchange buying the $2 billion Brazilian company It remains unclear why the talks..
4 years ago

Binance Secures Approval in France And is Now a Registered Digital Asset Provider

According to a release from France's capital market regulator, the AMF (Autorité des marchés financiers), the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been granted regulatory approval in the country Binance is now a registered Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) in France and is allowed to custody digital assets, facilitate..
4 years ago

Coinbase Now Welcomes All Users to its NFT Marketplace

The world’s first publicly listed crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) announced on Wednesday that it is releasing the beta version of its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace to everyone Almost seven months after Coinbase unveiled the launch plans in October 2021, the NFT marketplace already started allowing a handful of users to try out the..
4 years ago

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Decentralized Social Media and Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

The head of Nasdaq listed crypto exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong believes that decentralized social media (DeSo) is gearing up following Elon Musk purchase of Twitter making it a privately owned business once again Appearing on the May 2 ‘Conversations with Crypto Pioneers’ at the Milken Institute Global Conference, joined by ARK Invest..
4 years ago

Kraken Exchange Opens Waitlist for its NFT Marketplace

Crypto exchange Kraken has opened up the waitlist for its long-awaited non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace In a company blog post, the Kraken team announced that among the many features users can benefit from are the “zero gas fees” on all trades involving NFTs custodied on the platform Users will only be charged with gas fees when..
4 years ago

FTX Acquisition of Liquid Exchange Shows That “Existing International Wire Transfer System is Fundamentally Broken”

FTX’ acquisition of Japanese Liquid, the operator of crypto exchange Quoine, which was first announced in February, was confirmed to have closed on April 4 following a slight delay In an email to his shareholders, Liquid CEO Mike Kayamori explained that there were “some human errors” leading to the postponement Kayamori added: “[The..
4 years ago

Largest Private Bank in Argentina Offering Crypto Trading Services

Argentina’s largest private bank by market value, Banco Galicia, confirmed on Monday that it added the option to buy and sell cryptocurrencies on its platform A new feature, highlighted as being “new”, was added in the investment section of the app for users to acquire Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), USDC and XRP Banco Galicia is..
4 years ago

Bitcoin’s Spot Market Demand Booming as Metrics Reveal Price Rally Igniting

Despite the conservative price action of the past weeks, popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo reports on Bitcoin’s spot market demand Woo tells his one million large Twitter audience that institutions remain interested in the top cryptocurrency and that capital is pouring in He notes that Bitcoin’s price behaviour resembles that of the end of..
4 years ago

Possible ‘Painful’ Times Ahead, Macro Guru Raoul Pal Says

In last Friday's daily briefing on his Real Vision channel, Macro guru and financial expert, Raoul Pal, told his viewers to expect ‘painful’ times ahead as global markets are stuck in a mass liquidation phase Not expecting a turnaround in the short term, Pal notes that while it does not matter what your portfolio is made up off, it will..
4 years ago

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Defends “Your Right” To Buy Crypto

The Head of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon on Friday remarked that while he does not really like crypto yet, he does see some benefits to it and believes anyone should be able to invest in it In an interview with KMTV 3 News Now in Omaha, the JPMorgan CEO said: "I always say I don’t particularly like it I defend your right to do it I’d say be..
4 years ago

Swiss Central Bank Does Not See Any Problem With Buying Bitcoin

Although the time is not yet right there, Switzerland’s central bank, the Swiss National Bank does not see any problem with buying and holding Bitcoin as a reserve currency At the central bank’s annual meeting on Friday, Chairman Thomas Jordan said to be open for the possibility, if the cryptocurrency meets the bank’s currency reserves..
4 years ago

“Newbie” Crypto Investor and Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Fascinated by Web3

Former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt revealed that he has invested in cryptocurrency and that he is intrigued by Web3 economics In an interview with CNBC on Thursday, Schmidt who holds a net worth of $228 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, said that without naming specific coins or amounts, he is a newbie crypto..
4 years ago
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