We just need to know if the bridge will reach to the other side of the river to find out what's the treasure behind all of that. Btw you need to eat 34/40 pieces of cake and give the other 8 to your friends.
It melts my brain every time I think about all the amazing skins, knives and gloves lost to these weird/banned accounts probably to never be seen again.
Is there like a full account and all amount of all the skins that are banned forever ? if there is not, it might be fckg millions millions and millions of dollars wasted forever
They could funnel skins to an account and hand that account over to someone else as 1M payment. Officials don't have any way to track money in a video game.
all of the accounts the skins are being transferred through are 3 lettered so maybe it makes a code or something idfk but maybe it doesnt mean anything
This must be related to some shady, if not criminal business. Wild theory on my part: I can imagine that this has to do with some tax evasion or maybe a country (like i think Indonesia or Bangladesh, not sure who did propose it recently) banning the access to games and game services. A asian country makes sense, because the currency in these countries is often unstable while cs skins are fairly stable trending up in prices, just look what happened in Sri Lanka recently, an entire currency basically extinguished.
Most likely a Chinese trader trying to launder money. Currently in the stock market a china based company just went up from $25 to $2000 in 10 days. So lot's of exploiting happening at this moment.
Tbh it isn't all that stupid to launder through cs. Just because we can see the history of items, doesn't mean that EVEN IF law enforcement would know how to do that and if they could, there is a question of it being a legitimate evidence (at the end of the day csgofloat isn't official valve site). On the other hand it might be someone trying to (though very questionably) get around yuan capital controls, as China has been cracking down on Macao.
I second this. Money laundering and moving money out of controlled markets is high probability for me. Crypto money has a history of being used for stuff like this. And this skin funneling operation might be the reaction to china's crack down on crypto money
bro, for anyone that sells drugs or weapons, cs go items are the perfect way to laundry money. its really hard to tell if the skins were bought with the money of the illegal activities or not. Not only that but, who will think : "well we got the drug dealer, the drugs, but we didnt found any form of money. Lets check for his steam account to see if anything special is going on". This doesnt happen, as they will look into probably everything, but his steam account. And even if they do, how you gonna prove that the money that was used was the illegal? its really, really hard.
@@alexandreiss0agr276 If you talk about the streetdealers that might be true, but i think there are other and better ways for them to hide/stack cash. It isn't really easy for them to suddenly get a cashout if they out of the blue need a larger sum of money. If you mean some higher-ups of drugdealing/trafficking i doubt it, since the money would be miniscule. For example is a kilo of heroin worth over $100 000 according to google, so thats "just 10 kilos" which is not much in the grand scheme of trafficking. I think @azurio is on to something, sounds very plausible.
but this can actually mess up the economy. if they own 100% of a particular skin they can manage the prices of the skin since you wouldnt be able to get them from anywhere else except cases which would take a lot of luck.
They can mess up the economy, but not make money from that. As long as people can get skins from cases, they will be selling them down to a certain multiple of the case price (600-1000x, depending on the knives available and floats and stuff). Even with a huge number you'd have to keep buying up to inflate the price (losing money, since they're not worth that much) or keep selling to push it down (losing money, since they're worth more).
@@speedstyle. it’s different with factory new skins because they are incredibly more rare than normal versions on gloves, hence the $5k-$10k+ prices, those skins would be a different story to manipulate simply because of their rarity.
And this ladies and gentlemen is why a lot of games aren’t good to have auction houses anymore. Like in tarkov, PoE, dark and darker etc if u can buy all of one item your guaranteed to profit. Rmt will live forever. But over skins in a game is CRAZY
My theory is market manipulation, it’s probably controlled by a group that buys out all the rare skins and slowly releases them to the market for a higher price
@@FSGoingStraight why? skin prices have massively increased in value. If you bought all they skins at market price 6 years ago you could sell them on at a massive profit
@@Sensiseagal Well.. The investment scene has dramatically changed in the past 6 years. When you want to invest you wouldnt do it with gold-items as their ROI isnt as high. Say you buy a knife for 300 Bucks and it increases to 350. Thats less than buying cases for 8 cents each and selling them for 16 cents.
This doesn't have to be money laundering, this could also be a few people trying to drive up the market prices by emulating high demand. Although money laundering could be it as well, trying to hide the tracks.
I think its a Chinese rich guy with party connections. He bought knives that were heavily buffed in CS2 with the new lighting engine, all the knives that skyrocketed in popularity. He likely had inside Valve knowledge on this change and bought before everyone knew how it would look.
It could just be tax planning stuff. I thought of this as the account had so many same items. That's how tax planning works with art. You control the supply so you can set the price really high. Then you can donate the art and you get the fake price as deductible. Probably not tho. Just a thought. In art they buy like a lot of 1-50k$ art and then later claim its price is like 2 mil per painting.
That is not how it works. They do not buy the same item and then reappraise and donate them. They buy up collections from an artist (which is different paintings and not all the same items), they then get someone to appraise them for a huge mark up, which is then bought by typically a friend or accomplice. This validates the artist and paintings as being valuable and therefore artificially inflating the rest of the collection. This has nothing to do with the supply as this can be done with very few paintings or every painting an artist has done, either way the price goes up. Also to donate them they typically have to be culturally significant. How on earth are they going to convince someone a collection of CSGO skins is anything of the sort.
@@ridiak3637 Yes. Obviously. And it does have something to do with the supply even though paintings are different. And the idea works the same with skins that are the same item instead of being from the same collection.
@@LarryJL The idea does not work the same at all. One exploits the uniqueness of work, to then have a huge mark-up in price without reference to argue against. The other exploits the scarceness of an item, which is not unique, circulating the market, and therefore increasing its value. Your point would be valid if they owned nearly all the supply and they kept selling and buying for a new crazy price. But they do not, so I am confused on how you think it is similar at all. I would be interested to hear your reasoning though as you gave none. Once you try to justify it you will see my point. I am not trying to argue, I just wanted to point out the incorrect conclusions you are drawing.
@@ridiak3637 Both systems work by controlling the supply and artificially raising the book price of the items. This also happens with art. It's not as different as you claim. The art being constituted of unique pieces doesn't change anything here. From what I remember, they specifically DO hold enough of those rare items to manipulate the prices. If I recall correctly the stuff was also linked to Asia, so laws regarding this stuff could be wastly different.
I am surprised that no one has yet mentioned that all the accounts have a similar name pattern - three lower case letters. Very easy to spot even if they did not have the "broken" inventories.
Ps: Thoose acounts can also be bots from gambling sites and owners arange skins on them? Or some1 rich trying to get all the skins he wants and manipulate the market price later?
Honestly I would assume this is just someone funneling as much of each item into their possession to control the markup on them. If they own like 80-90% of any circulating item they can basically dictate the price of it when they sell it off later.
Yeah there is definitely a lot of shady stuff going on, but whoever does it with cs items is also there to profit on it imo. Otherwise you could just use these random game items for games nobody plays but are listed and sold for insane amounts on the steam community market to convert money into other currencies
No wonder every nice looking glove pair and knife is ridiculously expensive nowadays, lol. High tier Karambits/Bayonets went up like 3x since 2019, high tier gloves as well, but playerbase is NOT 3 times bigger. Too many crypto guys and sketchy people in the community nowadays
Arrow was actually paid to Distract Ohne with the new Snow leopards Gloves... He wasn't sleepy at all.. He was meant as a Distraction for the account to Transfare the Skins.
i feel like the transit account creation has to be automated and just picks 3 random characters for the name, right? i suppose its because 3 random characters are more likely to look like a legit name at a glance than just keyboard mashing
Why would they go through all of the effort to trade the skins between alt accounts just to deposit them all into one massive and public inventory at the end?
“If I was sleeping I would be fully bricked up when arrow calls me in the middle of the night” I’m officially using bricked up as my catch phrase for life
According to online sources (don’t ask for links I’ve only heard through word of mouth.) Good Kid is big in the NFT trading market. Apparently there was a scare and a threat of big market decline so he invested into CS as it’s somewhat a more stable market. Nothing confirmed by fact just more speculation.
if you wanna take a gamble with some extra funds, buy some of the remaining FN snow leopards and slingshot gloves just in case these accounts get banned with them lol
i think it's done in order to speculate the price ? they buy then continue to exchange to make it seem like the market is active and demanding, selling and rebuying wkth the same non-premium (>5$ Cashback) accounts, to then sell one of the version and sell of them back ?
I saw on a discord skin server that someone was saying this guy is a crypto initial investor. I know some crypto currencies cant be withdrawn without losing a large percentage so I feel like they are trying to maximize their return on their initial investments in the currency/ies. There are some absolute programming beasts working in the crypto industry so I wouldn't be surprised if those steam accounts are bots made with one purpose to trade items to specific accounts based on trade restrictions, then as soon as they trade the account auto disables.
bro its crazy that this guy bought all these dopplers and shiny guns (that look good in cs2). Its like he knew CS2 was coming out and sold at the best price this dude knows something we do not. Probably the best investments in csgo/cs2 history
@@alexandreiss0agr276 lmao he crashed and burned and went out like a jerk. It was his own fault. Screw him. But you’re a wonderful person and I hope you fare much better than he.
Probably just someone or rather a group of people buying up the stock and distributing them to accounts. So they have multiple accounts for each worker and they just get the items off real people and them bringing them into one account for some reason. In the end it is probably going to be a profit from having high market share to bump up the prices and resell them. As it's nothing people really care about it's not going to be busted. Laundry is also probable. The multiple accounts are most likely circling the items so that it seems like the last guy actually bought them and the bank transfers match to keep that clean. You can't just buy insane amounts of (physical) steam gift cards and also not by a single person. So they just have multiple accounts they get the money in, buy one skin and then never use the accounts again. The last accounts would be the "insane traders" that just have the skins and if they withdraw everything it is technically not a taxable business. The middleman you talked with is just a regular guy having his own stuff going on.
Lol steam giftcards are incredible inefficient and highly possible to get caught, why bother with that when you can buy skins for crypto on non-official valve sites risk free pretty much?
@@SkritchB You are right. But Steam Giftcards is the OG way. It is inefficient, but well, it works. Didn't know about the Crypto thing. Not that I would have ever laundered money.
The account now has even more. They've been stockpiling fn skeleton fades, fn gold arabesques, ww medusas and a bunch of fn howls too. Absolutely crazy. Some of the items are getting traded out of the inventory too though. In this video, the inventory have 159 bayonet fades. Now its down to 87. I wonder where the rest are going Edit: I've tracked down where some of the items are going. After leaving goodkid's inventory, they seem to be spreading out into a bunch of weird inventories, each having around 2 pages each of high-teir skins which amount to approximately $5000. These accounts are also stockpiling specific skins. Examples: Guy with a user id 64 of 76561198857838562: -recieved a ak case hardened fn 0.022272 float directly from good kid -has multiple fn navaja fades, fn emerald jormungandrs, fn awp wildfires, and more user id64 of 76561198192123891: -recieved the ak from the previous user, no longer has it -has a bunch of random high teir skins, including a lot of M4A1s printstream, guardians, and awp redlines Im noticing that almost all of these account have no tradable items too - they're all on trade hold - so that concludes ohne's theory that they are being rotated between accounts every 7 days another dodgy inventory- id of 76561199249830830: haven't found any direct ties with good kid however the inventory is recieving items from the same weird accounts as good kid
Could it be possible that this is being perpetrated by a steam account scammer, and the accounts moving the skins are those that were successfully phished/hijacked? It seems completely possible to me that the skins could've come from a targeted attack against certain high value traders in an attempt to steal their accounts. The accounts that fall for the bait would probably get their cheap items shredded and would have their expensive items moved around. If I was an account hijacker, I wouldn't want people seeing the history of my items either.
Can only be valve somehow putting banned inventories back into the marketplace?? kinda like a burn address when crypto projects say they burn tokens but in reality it likely goes to a dark pool that they probably totally have access to,
I can say from experience, this is most likely laundering. Digging will probably end up nowhere, as is the point of money laundering. Strange shit to see using skins to launder but not too strange once you realize that you can launder with a low loss once you finish it all, and with minimum risk
I went on a date with a chinese girl that moved in england, she told me that she had a lot of money back home but couldnt got them out without risking prison, when csgo came in china, she invested around 4 mil dollars worth in skins, she left china and came this year in england, i couldnt believe it till it showed me on her phone one of the accounts she had, over $500k in inventory, she cant go back to china, she doesnt have parents or brothers, so 0 risks for her by doing this, she told me that she is scared to turn back and decided to move in Bulgaria, I still have her number but didnt stood in touch with her, when i asked her why she doesnt have instagram, fb or any other social platform, she said that she doesnt want to get tracked, but was weird that she made a tinder account, as she said, she is alone and try to get it from 0, was weird the whole date, but i know for sure ill never meet a girl like her in my entire life, she has huge balls for doing what she did and im not joking with what i said, this really fking happened
@@alexandreiss0agr276 I couldnt do such thing, she was afraid of everything around her, i have a lot in my life, cant manage to give a huge part of my time to fix someone when im broken af, hope she will be okey, im not the men for her and i dont care about money at all
It's really interesting to see this as I've been out of the skin game since like 2016 ish. Used to have a 0.1800 awp asiimov that I got from some chinese guy who was clueless even though I didn't do anything that shady and a 0.99978 blackiimov that I got legit, and still have a few low / high float skins but not sure how they are on the leaderboards now. Used to be all on csgo exchange for checking floats and was a paid service but dunno if this float lookup is free now
100% they are cleaning money. No collector buys that many of the same thing its does not makes sense. considering the massive amount of cool expensive skins.
real talk tho the most amount of skins i feel like someone should have (BESIDES COLLECTORS) is just 1 skin for each gun, maybe 2 knives and 2 gloves, for t and ct side
They all have 3 letter names as well maybe it’s a group of people all working together to transfer to one person to keep all the stock after buying at a lower price and then release once the cases go up at a higher price
Hello, sorry to tell you but the acc you were watching is alt account he has another acc with like $4M+ But he made it private cause it wasn't legit, he is getting insane amout of slins every month it's impossible or is it? Elon Musk? Tate?? Bill Gates?? who is that dude.
Not gonna lie, this situation is interesting and I've never seen anything like it before. I'd like to see a full video of someone explaining the whole thing
they might have traded from account to account to make the steam accounts seem active and to level them up for some site that will be launched or maybe the person will then drop 20 mil into the accounts
For sure market manipulation, if they are money laundering, they wouldn't keep it in skins this long and would use multiple accounts to sell them off instead of shuffling them around. This is not the only account chain that exists. like this. There is more going on here, case prices going up when streamers and people came back made lots of sense, but as all these cases are opened and skins themselves are becoming less and less rare. How are pink Xms, purple glocks, mag 7s, from recent cases all shooting up in price? Let alone the high end skins that have more than doubled in availble volume in the last couple months. The demand has been artifically created with these account chains, raising prices, even selling some items to themselves slowly raising prices to eventually drop big profits by selling 10 of the item they have boosted. Keep digging because this is way deeper than just one inventory
maybe he was afraid cus apparentally the crypto market is not that good anymore, got scared and got away from that market to csgo, since at least is kinda stable
