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I will start off with an uncommon one: Gambling addiction in kids is through the roof, sports betting, crypto betting, csgo skin betting. These are being openly advertised and we will start seeing the first major push towards stopping some of them.

Some of the owners of the most uncommon Counterstrike skin gambling sites are making about $50 million a month.



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



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.




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