Gambling Commission executive director Tim Miller has confirmed the British regulator is taking an initial look into how licensed operators could offer crypto as a payment method.

In a “tentative first step,” Miller told the Betting and Gaming Council’s AGM on Thursday that he has asked the Commission’s Industry Forum to “to look at how they think this could be progressed sensibly and in line with the licensing objectives.”

Miller said that the upcoming regulation of crypto assets, as well as a “growing appetite from punters” to use crypto for gambling, has inspired the change of…