Two pieces of cryptocurrency news including the man of the moment Matthew Kirk joining CoinPoker as an ambassador, and the former Full Tilt Poker co-founder, Rafe Furst, launching The Crypto Company.

Matt Kirk is putting Leon Tsoukernik’s money to good use.

The Australian High Stakes cash game grinder currently locking horns with the King’s Casino owner over an unpaid $2m loan has agreed to become one of the many faces of CoinPoker.

CoinPoker launched a free-to-play version of the latest online poker room to ride the back of the cryptocurrency wave, last week. The currency used on CoinPoker is known as Chips (CHP), and on November 16, the company began selling 100m of the things in a pre-Initial Coin Offering (ICO) due to end on Dec 2.