I'm guessing they've had some time to review after the recent EiG expo spotlighted cryptocurrencies and such with their new Blockchain Agenda. One of the speakers there was the MGA's senior legal advisor Carl Brincat, although he wasn't on that specific blockchain panel.
However others representing many other European countries were on the panel, along with founders/representatives from some of the largest crypto-gambling projects currently. You can find the full list of those who contributed to the Blockchain Agenda this year in the link below.
http://www.eigexpo.com/blockchain-agenda
These projects are trying to accomplish some great things for us, and certainly deserve our support. I've personally seen the hard work going into a few of them and feel much better about the future of online poker than I did just a few short years ago.
With that said, there are many people/organizations who are simply trying to cash in on the blockchain hype with unrealistic promises and nothing more than vaporware. I would really like to see communities themselves establish some sort of fair self-regulation, otherwise we may eventually get far more restrictive measures imposed on us by physical governments.