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
  • Casino

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El Salvador Adds 500BTC to Treasury Amid Market Dip

El Salvador continues its dip-buying since it has become the first country in the world last year to make Bitcoin (BTC) legal tender in September of last year After having been accumulating coins on multiple previous favorable conditions, El Salvador's 'Bitcoin President', Nayib Bukele, revealed on Monday that the country made its tenth..
4 years ago

Crypto Markets Dive Into the Red, Bitcoin Below $34K

Bitcoin went below $34,000 on Monday morning after declining almost 3% over the past 24 hours and nearly 14% over the last seven days The market cap of the flagship cryptocurrency tanked to $640 billion trading at $33,632 at time of writing according to CoinMarketCap data A little over a month ago on March 28, that number was a solid $900..
4 years ago

Robinhood Adds Grayscale’s Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts

On Friday, financial services and trading App Robinhood announced the listing of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Ethereum Trust (ETHE) to the platform With the addition of the investment products, customers can now buy and sell GBTC and ETHE stock and options without commission Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), the..
4 years ago

YouTube Shuts Down Popular Ethereum Podcast ‘Bankless’, But Quickly Reverts Decision

On Sunday, popular Ethereum-focused YouTube channel and podcast, Bankless, had shortly been removed from the social media platform without receiving any warning or justification The channel, good for almost 150,000 subscribers and holding over 10,000 hours of content which included people as notable as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, said..
4 years ago

Instagram to Add Support for NFTs, Kicks Off With U.S. Pilot

Meta is set to make an announcement on Monday that it will be commencing a pilot bringing NFTs from some of the most popular blockchains to Instagram Reports from sources close to the matter indicate that the social media platform plans to support non-fungible token (NFT) integrations for the most popular networks, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana and..
4 years ago

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
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