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A search for CSGO skin betting brings up a ton of sites, but I still have no idea what it is. Can you explain it? I don't really understand what is being bet on there. (Also, I'm slightly scared of the answer)

Good timing! If you have a spare hour that is. Coffeezilla just released two videos digging into the csgo skin casinos business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jhjjVy5Ls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_gambling I assume

I thought this was already happening everywhere. This is already happening in my country (Argentina) and just recently a law was voted (half chamber only) to not allow promoting gambling sites in football, game streams, etc.

> Gambling addiction in kids is through the roof, sports betting, crypto betting, csgo skin betting

Hopefully content creators will get persecuted for selling crypto pump and dump schemes towards kids.