>>22342 > just traders from third world countries that use virtual knife skins to make a living gambling is illegal in places like russia, china, and india so people use highly volatile speculative assests, like cs skins, as a substitute for gamba, i think options trading is super popular in india for this very reason cs skin speculation is as much of a real job as playing slots is
>>22346 >valve is right to gut the skins economy not to appeal to authority, but valve employs real economists, i think even the former greek prime minister yanis varoufakis was their in house economist for a while, so whatever they did will surely benefit them in the end they dont make money when big ticket items get traded off-site via crypto or whatever so they dont really care if those items lose all of their value, the only problem i can see is that the trust is now broken so people wont want to open cases, but i am sure some nerd maths phd already did the calculations and they will still profit more in the end even if some whales will stop spending now
