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says Palos. “And in some places
guests,” says Palos. “We’re probably
such as Cyprus, we’re at 100%.” Lim
one of the first casino operators
adds that: “From a cloud perspective,
that actually adopted blockchains
we’re very agnostic, because we
in part of our production environ-
don’t want to depend on one single
ment.” One example is a blockchain
cloud provider. That’s why we dis-
used in the casino’s cage, to track
tribute it across the different major
all transactions for gaming activity.
players in the industry, such as AWS.”
Melco also built a prototype called
Emerging technologies play a
MelGuard for use in Japan. It uses
significant role at the organisation.
blockchain as a mechanism for keep-
“We spend a lot of our time looking
ing track of player activities, such as
at how we can apply those kinds of
how long they’ve been inside in order
technologies into our operations to
to promote responsible gaming.
help better serve our customers and
“We’re actually considering building
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