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

The Ball Is Rolling – More Nations to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender This Year, deVere Group CEO Says

The head of financial advisory firm deVere Group, Nigel Green, is confident that by the end of this year, a minimum of two countries have adopted Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender Green shares his views in a new company blog post, where he reflects on the Central African Republic becoming the world’s second country to declare Bitcoin official..
4 years ago

Goldman Sachs Has Offered Its First Bitcoin-Backed Loan

Global investment bank Goldman Sachs has started offering loans backed by cryptocurrency As reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, the banking giant has offered its first-ever cash loan backed by Bitcoin (BTC) A Goldman Sachs representative explained that the secured lending facility lent cash collateralized by Bitcoin owned by the borrower She..
4 years ago

Panama Passes Crypto Regulation, No Taxes on Capital Gains

On Thursday, the plenary session of the Panamanian Legislative Assembly approved a bill on the use of cryptocurrencies in the Central American country, with a 40-0 vote The new law will consider crypto assets as foreign-source income, which in guidance with Panama's territorial taxation system, means there will be no taxes on capital..
4 years ago

ECB Official Says Satoshi Nakamoto Did Not Understand Money – Really?

Executive board member of the European Central Bank (ECB), Fabio Panetta, believes that Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto was lacking a “in-depth understanding” of money issues when he developed the flagship cryptocurrency Speaking at Columbia University, Panetta said: “Satoshi Nakamoto, or rather the software developers..
4 years ago

Dubai Real Estate Giant DAMAC To Accept Bitcoin As Payment

United Arab Emirates-based high-end real estate developer DAMAC Properties will soon be accepting crypto payments for property purchases in the region, the company said in a Wednesday statement The announcement detailed that DAMAC will accept payments in Bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH), as it aims to "accelerate the new economy for newer..
4 years ago

OneFootball Raises $300M in Series D Round And Partners with Animoca Brands

In a series D funding round by blockchain fund Liberty City Ventures, football focused media platform raised $300 million to fuel the company’s growth in the Web 3 sector The company said on Thursday that the new capital will be used to support its expansion and the newly created OneFootball Labs, a joint venture with Liberty City Ventures..
4 years ago

Gibraltar Imposes New Rules on Crypto Industry to Uphold Market’s Integrity

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) is set on addressing crypto market manipulation with new rules aimed at the distributed ledger technology sector In the new regulatory principle by the financial regulator is stated that a distributed ledger technology (DLT) provider must assure the integrity of the market in which it operates,..
4 years ago

Central African Republic Becomes 2nd Nation in the World to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

After rumors had been going on for a few days, the Central African Republic has confirmed to have become the second nation in the world to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender In September of last year, El Salvador was the first to embrace Bitcoin, under leadership of its ‘Bitcoin President’, Nayib Bukele In an official statement from..
4 years ago

Robinhood Letting Go 9% of Workforce After Disappointing Growth

Following a slow-down of growth, popular trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) is letting go roughly 9% of its full-time workforce CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev shared the disappointing news in a company blog post on Tuesday Tenev explained that in 2020 and 2021 his company experienced “hyper growth” as a result of the coronavirus pandemic..
4 years ago

Buenos Aires Soon to Accept Tax Payments with Cryptocurrencies

The capital city of Argentina, Buenos Aires, will soon be accepting tax payments made with cryptocurrencies Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta made the announcement on Monday noting that the City government will not receive crypto directly from its residents but, with the help of “leading” crypto companies, Argentine pesos instead Larreta..
4 years ago

Yield Guild Games Partner Ola GG Collects $8M In Seed Funding Round

Regionally-focused partner of decentralized gaming startup Yield Guild Games (YGG), Ola GG, has raised $8 million to further grow its play-to-earn gaming in Spanish-speaking markets In a statement, Ola GG said that the seed funding round saw participation from from Galaxy Interactive, BITKRAFT and Arca, among others The newly raised capital..
4 years ago

Kraken Crypto Exchange Receives Trading License in the United Arab Emirates

US-based crypto exchange Kraken has become the second virtual asset platform after Binance to receive the regulatory greenlight to operate in the Abu Dhabi international financial center and free zone, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) In an interview with CNBC, Kraken’s Managing Director Curtis Ting explained the kind of volume the exchange..
4 years ago

In Five Years Web3 Will Dominate the Internet and Governments Run Their CBDCs – Raoul Pal

In a new interview with the BitBoy Crypto YouTube channel, former Goldman Sachs executive and macro guru Raoul Pal revealed his expectations of blockchain technology in the coming future Pal, who is founder and CEO of Real Vision, said that within five years Web 30 will be dominating the internet while governments have launched their own central..
4 years ago

Meta Opens Metaverse Store In San Francisco Helping People Connect With The New Reality

Facebook's parent company, rebranded last year to Meta, is launching a retail store in the San Francisco Peninsula where it will offer hardware for the virtual reality space In an announcement on Monday, Meta said it is opening a retail store in Burlingame, California on May 9, located on the Meta Campus Featuring a a wall-to-wall curved..
4 years ago

OpenSea Acquires NFT Aggregator Gem Eyeing a “Pro Experience”

Leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, OpenSea, on Monday announced its acquisition of NFT aggregator service Gem With the terms of the deal undisclosed, OpenSea said in a blogpost that it will integrate “the best of Gem’s features,” allowing for its upgraded platform to deliver a “pro experience to its users” The announcement..
4 years ago

Elon Musk Secures Free Speech With His $44B Twitter Buyout Offer Getting Accepted

Twitter (TWTR) has accepted Elon Musk’s $5420-a-share buyout offer or roughly $44 billion in cash, according to a press release Upon finalization of the deal, Twitter will turn to be a privately held company Musk made his intentions clear in a statement, saying: "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the..
4 years ago

Attack on Proof-of-Work Continues; U.S. Lawmakers Push For Tighter Oversight of Crypto Mining

US Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA) and 22 other Congress members have sent a joint letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan concerning the operations of cryptocurrency mining In the letter, the group is calling for “increased oversight of cryptocurrency’s environmental impacts” and states: "We have..
4 years ago

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase Warns Apple of Potential Antitrust Issues

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase commented on Apple’s (anti-)crypto policy in a new episode of the popular Indian Superteam podcast Speaking with Tanmay and Akshay, Armstrong said: “You try to get your app in the App Store and Apple ejected it and then they had this competing one that got approved … it’s a black box” The CEO..
4 years ago

Toyota and Nissan Have Joined the Metaverse

Two Japanese carmakers Nissan and Toyota have become the latest global business to enter the metaverse A Nikkei Asia report reveals that Nissan has opened a virtual showroom while Toyota dabbled into the metaverse with virtual workspaces As per the report, Nissan has created a digital reality version of its Tokyo gallery Nissan Crossing which..
4 years ago

Skybridge Capital Is “Extremely Bullish” on Crypto And Sees Huge Growth Coming

Founder Anthony Scaramucci and director John Darsie of Skybridge Capital, discussed their business crypto expectations in an interview with Bloomberg The Skybridge founder said that his firm currently holds of the total of $35 billion in assets in crypto assets, such as Bitcoin, Algorand, Ethereum and publicly traded stocks Scaramucci said..
4 years ago
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