The CalvinAyre.com team covers the World Executive Gaming Summit (WGES) each year and I was surprised when I studied the 2018 agenda for one reason in particular; I spied an unusually large number of dedicated Blockchain panels and presentations, a Blockchain roundtable and even an ICO pitch.

What began as a niche topic with one or maybe two dedicated panels at each event, Blockchain technology has ballooned into a major topic of interest, now justifying hours of dedicated content per gambling conference.

For those of you who don’t know, WGES is notorious for attracting the most senior crowd of decision makers in the gambling industry, covering technology that is set to disrupt their organizations and our industry in general. Blockchain as one of the main headlines at WGES 2018 sends a loud and clear message to the professionals in our industry…I do think we are on the brink of an explosion here.

Just last week I covered the Blockchain Summit London for our sister site, CoinGeek.com and learned Ethereum’s status as the one and only “blockchain of choice” for companies to build on is about to change.  Following the May 15th upgrade of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) chain, for example, the BCH block size has been increased to 32Mb (think lots of transactions while maintaining low fees) and the OP_Codes have been restored.