Apart of a trial before officially legalizing it, the province of New South Wales (NSW) will now allow gamblers to play slots (called “pokies” in Australia) by linking their bank accounts to an app on their smartphones, along with facial recognition in the app, which is then connected to the machine via Bluetooth. The linked bank accounts are to reportedly prevent money laundering, 7 News Australia says.
Gamblers can also set limits for themselves, keep a tally of how much they have spent, alerts that keep themselves from playing too much or all together, and access help services.
There apparently has been great intrigue from casinos, arcades, pubs, and other venues to incorporate these cashless machines. Initially the government had planned to set aside 500 terminals for the pilot, but since demand was so high a little over 5,900 were ordered instead.
Initial trials have been in place for roughly a year now, which originally started out that gamblers would need gaming passcards to play, but that has since shifted to directly linked bank accounts.
However, during earlier trials it was revealed that this move was to help in tracking the velocity of money, or the rate of the money being spent and where, and by how much. The NSW government claimed that this was because billions of dollars of drug money were being peddled through the province’s pokie systems. The current systems, the government asserts, claims that people can anonymously use the machines to launder drug money and therefore the transactions need to be more closely monitored.
Such trials have run into roadblocks. In June one of the trials was terminated after some of the machines were hacked per a “cyber attack.” Experts and the governments reported that customer’s information was leaked.
This move comes as the country as a whole is rapidly moving to cashless society in general, as the largest banks are no longer allowing cash transactions and instead directing customers to cashless ATMs, while the country also is increasingly pushing for citizens to receive a digital ID – which could eventually be linked up to these cashless slot and gambling machines.
The WinePress has highlighted this transition in a number of reports, which include:
- Australian Media Says Country Will Be ‘Functionally Cashless’ By 2025, As Nation Continues To Push Digital IDs And Implantables To Pay
- Paper And Physical Documents Are Going By The Wayside, As Australia Now Allows Permanent Digitalization Of All Documents And Compatible With Digital ID
- Australia Contracts Mastercard And Others To Test CBDC Payment System, Used To Facilitate ‘Carbon Credit Units’
- Australia Going Completely Cashless: Banks Are Now Beginning To Ban And Limit Cash Withdrawals While Continuingly Increasing Digital ID Issuance
- Victoria Australia Announces Rollout Of Digital IDs By 2024
- New South Wales Australia Set To Launch All-In-One Digital ID To Fully Replace Physical Documents And Requires Facial Recognition
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Cashless gambling? What could go wrong?
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Proverbs 13:11, 21:20
Gambling is a dangerous and foolish vice and addiction as is, but we know how much worse wasting away and spending and going into debt is when you swipe a card: but this is much worse, because now players are not even swiping a card but just linking their direct bank accounts to these machines. You’d have to be an absolute fool to do this! But, we know plenty of Aussies certainly will anyways…
And, this comes after these machines were hacked: now you’re going to allow yourself to link your bank account to an insecure machine via Bluetooth? How stupid can we get, I mean, seriously?
As I hinted at, eventually digital IDs will be required to play slots and gamble, as will everything else in a country near you. But never mind the fact that India’s digital ID system just got totally wiped – 850 million people, 10% of the world population – but hey, digital IDs are so great, right?
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The house always wins, and oh ya won to much so we won’t allow it and will remove it from ya bank account. Sorry you’ve used to much and exceeded game perimeters and violated terms and service;
The House Always Wins
AUSTRALIA HAS FALLEN: It now appears that the nation of Australia has fallen. The once-free country is now under UN occupation and globalist control, with no remaining mechanism for the restoration of democracy. Anthony Albanese and his Nazi Gov’t seem to be trying to invoke violence across the nation. Australian’s leaders no longer answer to the people of Australia. Instead, they answer to criminal-minded globalists who seek the total destruction of Australia. They are all puppets to a globalist, anti-human agenda that seeks to enslave humankind. Importantly, their loyalties are not with the nations they claim to be running, but rather with the globalist agenda that aims to destroy national sovereignty and enslave the entire world under one world government. Anthony Albanese has all the characteristics of a slimy weasel.