Gaming Economies Now Sit on Federal Rails, and the Rules Have Changed
Ten years ago, a bad trade in a gaming Discord, a shady sponsor payout, or a scammy skin sale usually ended one of three ways: a chargeback, a banned account, or a screenshot making the rounds. That was the ceiling. Local police weren’t opening files over a lost cosmetic, and federal agents weren’t reading anyone’s DMs. Messy, sometimes ugly, but …





































