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.)
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.
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.
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.
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https://www.casino.org/news/armenia-introduces-new-taxes-restrictions-on-its-gaming-industry/I think it has positive and negative outcome if it will be implemented.
If this will be imposed in most countries, it could lessen the population of youths gambling. This would prohibit the underage to gamble since they have to use debit or credit cards which are usually offered and issued to adults who are already working.
This would also lessen the population of gamblers because not everyone has debit and credit card to begin with. Those who aren't qualified to have it won't be able to gambler. Which could either be a positive or negative effect depending on where you will view it.
Regarding the negative effect, the personal information could be at risk since the information of the cards will be monitored and will be stored in the casino's database that will be sent to the government as well if it's required by their contract. The average people and the poor can't gamble of they aren't qualified to get one. This could pose discrimination against those who aren't wealthy enough to acquire a card.
If physical casinos will impose this, surely majority will have a hard time adjusting to the policies given. There are already crypto casino that are doing this, but as far as I know physical establishments still cater accepting physical fiat because of inclusivity reasons.