Blizzard Senior Security Engineer Shawn Routhier gave a presentation on Splunk’s -conf about the gold market in World of Warcraft, which apparently moves a staggering 21 billion gold between players daily.
There’s quite a lot of data in the presentation, some of the most interesting slides are posted below:
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