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- MarketCalifornia AB 831 takes effect January 1 and your skin gambling site might disappearCalifornia's move against unlicensed online gambling is the clearest sign yet that the skin-casino era is closing. Here is what changes and what holders should do.5 min · 2026-06-14
- PatternPrint of the week: a Factory New Karambit Doppler RubyKicking off a weekly pattern spotlight. This week, why a Ruby Karambit clears multiples of a Phase 1 on the same knife at the same wear.3 min · 2026-06-14
- PatchHow a CS2 update moves the market: a patch-reaction playbookA reusable framework for reading what any CS2 update does to skin prices, written as the template we will fill in the next time Valve ships.4 min · 2026-06-14
- PredictionQ2 2026: the state of the CS2 inventory marketA quarterly read on where the CS2 skin market stands: the size, the crash that proved it is real money, the regulatory squeeze on gambling, and where a holder should have their head.10 min · 2026-06-14
- TaxThe skin tax clock: when your holding period flips to long-termHold a skin more than a year before you sell and the US long-term capital gains rate applies instead of your ordinary rate. Here is the clock, and why it is worth planning around.4 min · 2026-06-14
- OperatorStake's $41M Lazarus hack and what it means for skin holdersA North Korean state group walked off with about $41M from a gambling site. Here is why custody, not luck, is the real risk for anyone holding skins on someone else's servers.6 min · 2026-06-14