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

Litecoin Foundation Announces Major Security & Privacy Enhancing Upgrade

The Litecoin Foundation, core developer of the Litecoin (LTC) crypto asset has announced a major update After years of extensive development, testing, reviewing and auditing, the privacy and security-enhancing Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) upgrade is now ready to be released The MWEB upgrade will be provided in combination with the LTC..
4 years ago

VanEck Launches First European Exchange Traded Crypto Product

On Monday, investment firm VanEck, with over $80 billion in assets under management with exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, mutual funds and institutional accounts, announced its first cryptocurrency fund Listed on the Deutsche Borse Xetra and SIX Swiss exchanges as an exchange-traded note (ETN), it gives investors exposure to Bitcoin (BTC),..
4 years ago

Crypto Exchange FTX Enters Japanese Market After Acquiring Quoine

Crypto exchange FTX is entering the Japanese market with its latest acquisition of Liquid, the operator of regulated Japanese exchange, Quoine An important move for the exchange, which currently prohibits any registrations from Japan FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made the announcement via his Twitter account on..
4 years ago

Fidelity: Bitcoin is Like No Other Digital Asset

In a latest report, Fidelity Digital Assets, Fidelity Investments' crypto branch, zooms in on Bitcoin (BTC) and makes a strong case for the top cryptocurrency despite its latest drawback to a valuation of under $40,000 per coin The firm’s analysts point to two main reasons why Bitcoin has to be considered differently than other crypto..
4 years ago

Deloitte Crypto Survey: 82% of Indians Plan to Invest in Crypto Once Regulated

Results published from a recent survey of conducted by Deloitte and the Times of India, show that an overwhelming majority of 82% of Indians have plans to invest in cryptocurrency That is, should the government decide on the status of cryptocurrencies in the country According to the report, about 20 million people in India have invested in..
4 years ago

Meta Loses $10.2 Billion on its Metaverse Operations in 2021

On Wednesday, Meta Patforms, formerly known as Facebook announced losses of $102 billion in 2021 on its newly created Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) division This includes Meta’s augmented and virtual reality operations According to its fourth-quarter earnings report, FRL revenue for 2021 was $23 billion and just a small fraction of the almost..
4 years ago

The World Needs a Universal Sovereign Currency, Jack Dorsey Tells Michael Saylor

During a conversation with fellow Bitcoin advocate MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor at MicroStrategy's Bitcoin for Corporations conference on Tuesday, former Twitter CEO and current Block Head, Jack Dorsey spoke about Bitcoin and how society can benefit from its adoption Noting that the world needs a universal currency where, for instance,..
4 years ago

El Salvador Ignores IMF: “Bitcoin is About Sovereignty!”

El Salvador is not surrendering to the International Monetary Fund after it got criticized for its Bitcoin Law that turned into effect in the country on September 7, 2021 Last week the IMF urged El Salvador to stop allowing Bitcoin’s use as legal tender and  to dissolved Fidebitcoin, the $150 million trust fund created for the Bitcoin..
4 years ago

MicroStrategy Adds 660 BTC to Its Treasury During the Latest Dip

Nasdaq-listed software intelligence firm, Microstrategy has once again bought the dip Frontline ‘Bitcoin CEO’ Michael Saylor made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday: https://twittercom/saylor/status/1488498422495817728 The purchase was made during the period between Dec 30, 2021, and Jan 31, 2022, according to documents from the US..
4 years ago

$383M Worth of Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack Got Moved

As reported by Twitter account Whale Alert, a large portion of Bitcoin that was stolen six years as a result of the infamous Bitfinex hack, were moved on Tuesday morning With a value of over $383,000, 10,000 BTC were transferred to an unknown wallet, which is approximately 8% of the total 119,756 BTC taken from Bitfinex in 2016, one of the..
4 years ago

SOL Surges as Coinbase Lists Two Solana Ecosystem Tokens, ORCA & FIDA

After cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase listed two tokens of the Solana ecosystem, the Ethereum-killer Solana (SOL) itself managed to surge 18% in the last 24 hours and is currently comfortably valued at $10714 according to CoinMarketCap data On Monday, Coinbase had announced the listing of ORCA and FIDA, tokens of Solana-based decentralized..
4 years ago

India to Tax Crypto Income 30%, Launch of CBDC in 2022-23

During the Indian budget speech today, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the government plans to impose a 30% tax on any income from the transfer of virtual digital assets Furthermore, she said that India’s central bank digital currency, the digital rupee, will likely be issued towards the end of this year, towards..
4 years ago

Chainalysis Report Shows Only 0.05% of All Crypto Transactions Are Illicit

A new report from Chainalysis shows that money laundering activities still only account for a very small portion of all crypto transactions The market analytics firm notes that while 5% of the global gross domestic product is laundered every year in fiat currency, only 005% of all crypto transactions are involved with money..
4 years ago

Former WEF Executive to Lead the Crypto Council for Innovation Into the Next Decade(s)

Sheila Warren, a former World Economic Forum executive will be leading the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) as the new Chief Executive Officer In a press release on Monday, the Washington based lobbying group said that Warren will be responsible for leading the discussion of crypto on behalf of the CCI by communicating its benefits to..
4 years ago

Meta’s Diem Shuts Down as Silvergate Bank Acquires the Project

Meta’s Diem Association has come to and end In a statement on Monday, it announced it would “begin the process of winding down” both the group and its subsidiaries over the next few weeks The Meta (former Facebook) project started under the name of Libra in June 2019 In Diem’s statement, CEO Stuart Levey said: “A senior regulator..
4 years ago

‘Bitcoin President’ Bukele Expects a “Gigantic Price Increase” for BTC

The world’s one and only ‘Bitcoin President’ Nayib Bukele took to Twitter on Monday with yet another bullish Bitcoin (BTC) prediction Shortly after, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had urged El Salvador to disable Bitcoin as legal tender in the country, Bukele told his followers on social media that Bitcoin is bound for a massive..
4 years ago

Crypto Exchange FTX Series C Fundraise Leads to a Valuation of $32 Billion

After its subsidiary, FTX US, raised $400 million in its first Series A funding round, FTX Trading Ltd has raised another $400 million in a Series C fundraising round FTX is now worth $32 billion, with the firm being one of the largest digital asset firms in the world in terms of capitalization As per the announcement on Monday, the investment..
4 years ago

Haaland NFT sells for $684,000 in Online Auction on NFT Fantasy Football Platform Sorare

An NFT of probably the most wanted player in European football got sold for 2651001 Ethereum or $684,000 in an auction on Sunday night The digital collectible is now one of the most valuable digital sport items in history The collectible is one of Sorare’s “unique” digital trading card of Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland Sorare is..
4 years ago

Binance Restricts 281 Accounts In Nigeria for User Security and Fraud Prevention Reasons

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has recently restricted 281 accounts of Nigerian users, citing user security and fraud prevention as reasons Following the measures, the exchange addressed its Nigerian users in a letter where Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao apologized for recent delays in resolving customer support requests in the..
4 years ago

Goldman Sachs Warns Bitcoin Increasingly Vulnerable to Fed Rate Hikes

In its latest research note, global investment bank Goldman Sachs warns that as Bitcoin becomes widely accepted, it also turns to be increasingly vulnerable to the interest rates hikes by the US Federal Reserve The bank’s co-head of foreign exchange strategy, Zach Pandl, and FX analyst Isabella Rosenberg discuss the correlation of Bitcoin’s..
4 years ago
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