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Valve banned 40 CS:GO skin traders with $2 million in skins now locked and gone

bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
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Not your wallet, not you skins


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  • hupahupa Member UncommonPosts: 170
    Go, Valve! Gambling with the rules is not a good idea.
    Scot
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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    edited June 2023
    Oh no! The horror!

    Couldn't happen in the Web3CryptoMetaverse utopia 'cause no one will bend any rules there.
    Kyleran
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  • DibdabsDibdabs Member RarePosts: 3,238
    Nice one!
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,164
    Hooray!

  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    $2 million, you say?  That's all?  Everyone knows that if it were a real crypto scheme, it would be a lot more than $2 million that vanished.  And maybe also from people who didn't deserve to have it gone.

    https://web3isgoinggreat.com
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    edited July 2023
    So it was the traders dealing with known gambling sites allegedly being used to money launder via cryptocurrency that drew Valve's ire, not the act of skin trading apparently.

    That tracks....


    Post edited by Kyleran on
    ValdemarJ

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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    Fascinating, the above post is a virtual rewording of @Quizzical a couple of posts up. Apparently some form of LLM bot, but for what purpose does it do this?  

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  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,973
    Kyleran said:
    Fascinating, the above post is a virtual rewording of @Quizzical a couple of posts up. Apparently some form of LLM bot, but for what purpose does it do this?  
    It looks like it's designed to include spam links to some of its posts, making it harder to detect than a bot that would include spam links to all of its posts.
     
  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,385
    Do you recall there used to be a poster that would come here and reword and post threads that he took from Reddit. Got to wonder whether that was an early model of the AI.
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  • BrainyBrainy Member EpicPosts: 2,162
    edited July 2023
    Kyleran said:
    Fascinating, the above post is a virtual rewording of @Quizzical a couple of posts up. Apparently some form of LLM bot, but for what purpose does it do this?  
    So who are you calling out as a bot Quizzical or Janebutt, or both?

    LOL :smiley:
  • AmarantharAmaranthar Member EpicPosts: 5,851
    I've suspected Quizzical for a long time.  :* 
    Brainy

    Once upon a time....

  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,406
    Now wait, if those skins are stored on blockchain they still belong to the owner, correct?

    Oh wait...
  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,406
    janebutt said:

    Only $2 million? That seems like a relatively small amount for a supposed crypto scheme. Typically, if it were a genuine fraudulent operation, the sum of money that disappeared would be significantly higher. Moreover, it's unfortunate that such schemes often impact innocent individuals who shouldn't have had their funds vanish in the first place.

    Interesting, the above post is a minor rewording of @Quizzical a few posts earlier. Apparently some form of automation.  I wonder why? 
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,483
    Amaranthar said:
    I've suspected Quizzical for a long time.  :* 
    No real human could ever make more than 25,000 posts on the same forum.
    Amaranthar
  • ValdemarJValdemarJ Member RarePosts: 1,377
    So you and Kyle are robots in disguise? A little more than meets the eye?
    Wargfoot
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  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,406
    ValdemarJ said:
    So you and Kyle are robots in disguise? A little more than meets the eye?
    Robots make good antagonists in video games because they can be disguised as humans and are more than meets the eye.  Yes?
    ValdemarJ
  • Vermillion_RaventhalVermillion_Raventhal Member EpicPosts: 4,198
    Quizzical said:
    Amaranthar said:
    I've suspected Quizzical for a long time.  :* 
    No real human could ever make more than 25,000 posts on the same forum.
    Let's see if you can pass a CAPTCHA
  • ZullusmanZullusman Newbie CommonPosts: 3
    edited October 3
    That’s a real bummer that the CS skin traders are getting banned! I mean, locking away $2 million in skins is just insane. It's tough to see so many people lose their hard-earned investments like that. I’ve always thought trading skins was a bit of a gamble, but I didn’t expect it to blow up like this. I hope those traders can figure something out and get their stuff back. If you're still interested in skins, some alternatives might be worth checking out. Plenty of cool skins are still available, like the M4A1-S, which you can find on sites like skin.land. Just be careful with your trades; it’s a wild world out there!

    Post edited by Zullusman on
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