THE VIDEO SHELF · counter-strike skin gambling
I Got Bribed By Casinos, But I Exposed Them Instead
Coffeezilla recounts being offered a $20k bounty to expose a Counter-Strike skin casino, then investigates and finds a different story. It is the first episode of a series on CS skin gambling.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend the series as an in-depth investigation of third-party skin gambling and Valve's response.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Coffeezilla
- Topic
- counter-strike skin gambling
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Good timing! If you have a spare hour that is. Coffeezilla just released two videos digging into the csgo skin casinos business: [VIDEO] [LINK]
viraptor on Hacker News · 2024-12
In Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?The above commenter was probably inspired by the recent investigative(!) video series by Coffeezilla (and decided not to mention it?). It was either in part 2 or 3, where C-z alleged/suspected Valve's legal actions to have been mostly about good PR and to send a …
PinkSheep on Hacker News · 2025-01
In Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
