Have you ever thought of a government implementing a Cashless gambling? Making hard cash obsolete for gambling purposes? Armenia is currently pushing this law that force their gambler to do gambling transaction via bank[1]. It was stated that the said law is created so that the government can tax gambling institutions effectively. They also add an additional requirement that the gambling establishment needs to pay in order to get the desired licenses on how much bet the establishment can accept.
This may look profitable for the government but I believe it will hit hard gamblers. With the implementation of cashless gambling, gamblers are now exposed since they have to use their credit cards or debit card to play. (Another way of the government to spy on their citizen.)
There's such a thing as bank secrecy law where the bank is not allowed to share your information with any organization even the government, you need a court order for a bank to divulge information and transactions we live in a democratic law and the government cannot just open ones bank account for no big reason like being involved in money laundering and corruption.
In a positive note, minors gambling incident would greatly reduced because the gambling transaction can now be traced via bank statement, except if these minors can freely use their parent's cards.
I agree that's the positive side of it minors will have limited access to gambling
May take on this.. screw the government if we really wanted to do cashless gambling, there is always a cryptocurrency gambling platform option where we can at least play gambling without the need to use our bank account.
There's still regulation on Cryptocurrency backed casinos because these Cryptocurrency casinos are now compliant and regulated they will still ask for KYC under specific condition
So what do you think about this cashless gambling, is this another breakthrough of the gambling industry or just a way of the government to track their citizen and earn from the gambling establishment.
The government cannot track individuals through this means, but it can encourage establishing e-commerce not only for the gambling industry.