“If iGaming operators are to capture more market share… they need to be thinking about Bitcoin as the mobile digital currency of choice.”

We are used to reading these statements in cryptocurrency-focused publications. Anyone who knows anything about Bitcoin realises the huge potential of blockchain-based payment systems for mobile gaming.

What is interesting about this quote is that it comes directly from the gaming news site totallygaming.com.

Nothing in the article, which was an opinion piece by Tim Heath of Coingaming, will come as news to anyone in the Bitcoin community.

The online gaming industry has now been around for a while and there is a lot of legacy thinking still going on, especially among the big players.

This article makes the point that millennials and post-millennials have different expectations from the digital immigrants who came before them.

Those who fail to meet those expectations will simply not survive. Are Bitcoin payments the future of gaming? Like many other companies in industries threatened with disruption, it’s time for gaming outfits to adapt or die.