The Coin Pusher Authority · live on YouTube
Ministry of Coins.
A coin pusher that never stops. Write in the chat, and a coin with your name drops in.
Twice a day a very tired raccoon notary breaks the seal on the machine, a donkey hosts the show as if it were a gala, and the chat fills the field. Every month is one season, closed by a finale on the last night.
2
shows a day
two hours each, the times drift on purpose
1
message, one coin
with your name and profile picture on it
10
fallen coins
and the notary reads your name at the finale
0
cost, ever
no purchases, no prizes, no gambling
How to play
No account here, no app, no sign-up. You only need a YouTube account that can write in a live chat.
01
Catch a show
The machine opens twice a day for two hours. The start times move a little every day, so every hour of the day gets its turn. The upcoming streams are listed on the channel.
02
Write in the chat
Anything works: hello, your favourite soup, a complaint. Every message drops one coin with your name and profile picture onto the field. To keep it fair, there is one coin per person every ten seconds.
03
Watch it fall
The pusher shoves the coins forward. When one of yours goes over the edge, the host celebrates it and the notary writes it down. Whatever hangs over the edge when the show ends stays there until the next one.
04
Make the ledger
Ten of your coins over the edge in one season, and the notary has to read your name aloud at the finale. He hates that. Do it anyway.
Seasons and the finale
Each calendar month is one season. Between shows the machine is sealed, and nothing moves: the coins lie exactly where the last show left them. The notary announces how many shows of the season are left, and keeps count of every coin that falls and whose it was.
The last show of the month is the finale. The host closes the chat, the machine freezes, and the notary reads the Season Ledger: everyone with at least ten fallen coins that season, read aloud, while the credits roll. Then he seals the machine for the season. On the first of the next month it opens fresh, with a new ledger and the counts back at zero.
Every Sunday there is a short weekly report with the names at the top, and good moments from the shows (a big avalanche, a coin that hung on the edge for far too long) end up as Shorts on the channel.
Season Ledger
Everyone with at least ten fallen coins in a season, most falls first. The notary updates it after every show.
The notary reads the ledger out on the last night of every month.
The cast
Two hosts who have never once agreed on anything.
Raccoon, civil servant
The Notary
Breaks the seal at the start of every show, reports the inventory, counts down the end and seals the machine again. Old, tired and pedantic about nothing. He keeps the Season Ledger and reads it out on the last night of the month, at official speed.
Donkey, lounge entertainer
The Host
Opens every show by promising that it will be the best one we ever had. He says that every time. Greets newcomers, cheers every fallen coin and begs the chat for company when it goes quiet. He thinks this is a gala. It is not.
The coin archive
Every coin the house has ever put into the machine, oldest first. Your own coins carry your name or picture and are not part of the archive.
Opening run, 23 to 25 October 2026
The Star
The first house coin: old gold, a ring of beads and an eight-pointed star. Retired after the Preseason opening weekend.
Since 26 October 2026
The Notary
The current house coin. The notary himself, struck in gold, with "Ministry of Coins" around the rim.
Halloween, 25 to 31 October 2026
The Pumpkin
Seasonal coin. During Halloween week more than half of the house coins were pumpkins, with thunder and lightning over the machine.
Halloween, 25 October 2026 only
The Eye
Withdrawn from circulation after a single day. The notary found it was looking at him.
Live shows, since late October 2026
Hydrate
sponsored by hydration gang – this is NOT a drinking game
From the archive
A short history of the coin pusher
The coin pusher comes from the seaside arcades of England in the 1960s. The machine usually named as the first is Penny Falls, built by the Crompton family's company in Kent and most often dated to 1964: one big moving shelf, divided into twelve sections, so twelve people could play at once.
The notary would like it on record that the record is disputed. Trade-press accounts put the invention as early as 1960, credit different members of the Crompton family, and argue that an earlier Crompton game called Wheel A Win came first and simply had its holes taken out. He has filed all versions and endorses none.
What everyone agrees on: the principle has not changed since. Coins land on a shelf, a pusher nudges them forward, and every now and then the edge gives way. The Ministry's machine keeps that principle and drops the money. It is a physics simulation, the coins are worth nothing, and the only thing you can win is a mention in the ledger.
Sources: Wikipedia, Coin pusher, InterGame, Pushing coins through the ages.
Not gambling
There is nothing to buy, nothing to bet and nothing to win. Coins cannot be bought, sold or exchanged, and they have no value inside or outside the show.
House rules
YouTube's Community Guidelines apply, also to names and profile pictures on coins. The channel can remove anyone's coins and ban them from the show.
Made in Salzburg
Machine, hosts and pipeline are built and run by HÖÖM, a small technical studio in Salzburg, Austria. Questions and requests: chris@thelgb.net.
Privacy policy
For the live show, its recordings and its Shorts. The website itself is covered by the general privacy policy (in German). Last updated 28 October 2026.
Who is responsible
Christopher Helminger (HÖÖM), Franz-Josef-Straße 20/3, 5020 Salzburg, Austria, chris@thelgb.net.
What we use when you write in the chat
Your public YouTube display name, your channel ID, your profile picture and the time of your message. The text of your message only decides that a coin drops (and, for the channel owner, whether it is a moderation command). We do not store it. When you subscribe and your subscriptions are public, we see your channel name and ID and use them to greet you once.
What we do with it
Your coin carries your name and a small copy of your profile picture. The hosts may say your name out loud. We count how many of your coins fall, per show and per season, for the leaderboard, the weekly report and the Season Ledger. All of this is part of a public live stream: your name and picture are visible in the stream, in its recording on YouTube, and may appear in Shorts cut from the show, including in their titles and captions.
Season Ledger
If at least ten of your coins fall in a season, your display name and your number of falls for that season are published in the Season Ledger on this page, also for seasons that are already closed. Nothing else about you is in it: no channel ID, no picture. Your name stays in the ledger until you ask us to remove it; then it is replaced by "[deleted]" at once, and the place and the count stay. If you are banned from the chat, your name turns into "[deleted]" in the same way.
Legal basis
Our legitimate interest in running an interactive live show in which viewers take part with their name (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Taking part is your choice and not required to watch: if you never write in the chat, no coin is made for you. You can object at any time, see below. There is no automated decision-making or profiling.
Where it is kept, and for how long
On our own computer in Salzburg, not in a cloud. The one exception is the public Season Ledger file, which lies on our web server (Contabo, in the EU) next to this website. If you do not write in the chat for 90 days, your name and picture are removed from your coins and the picture copy is deleted; this applies to the coins, not to the Season Ledger. Raw recordings of a show are deleted after three days (the finale after 14 days), unless a Short is still being made from them. Published streams and Shorts stay on YouTube until we or you have them removed.
Voices
The hosts' voices are generated by ElevenLabs (Eleven Labs Inc., USA) on our behalf. Lines that contain your display name are sent there as text to be spoken. ElevenLabs is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU adequacy decision of 10 July 2023), and its data processing agreement also includes the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. The audio is kept on our computer so the same line is not generated twice, and is deleted on request.
Recipients
YouTube (Google Ireland Limited) delivers the chat to us and publishes the stream and Shorts; for its own processing it is a separate controller. ElevenLabs processes names for the voices, see above. Before a Short is published, the channel owner approves it in a self-hosted Nextcloud. The Season Ledger file is stored on our web server at Contabo (in the EU), which hosts this website for us under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). Nobody else receives your data, and nothing is sold or used for advertising.
YouTube API Services
The show uses the YouTube API Services to read the live chat, schedule streams and publish Shorts on our own channel. You never sign in with us and we never act on your account. YouTube's processing is covered by the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. Apps you have given access to your Google account can be reviewed and removed in your Google account settings; this show never asks for that access.
Removal and your rights
Write to chris@thelgb.net with your YouTube channel name, or ask in the chat. We remove your name and picture from your coins at once, replace your name in the Season Ledger with "[deleted]", withdraw Shorts that have not been published yet and take down published Shorts that show your name. You also have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, and you can complain to the Austrian data protection authority (Datenschutzbehörde).
Children
The show is not made for children. YouTube's own age rules decide who can write in a live chat.
Imprint
The Coin Pusher Authority is run by HÖÖM, Christopher Helminger, Franz-Josef-Straße 20/3, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.
chris@thelgb.net
Trade register (GISA): 39390738
VAT ID: ATU74862437
Business: IT services (Dienstleistungen in der automatischen Datenverarbeitung und Informationstechnik). Authority: Magistrat der Stadt Salzburg. Member of the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO Salzburg); applicable law: Gewerbeordnung, see ris.bka.gv.at. Editorial line (Blattlinie): our own entertainment show and its rules, no third-party editorial content. Full details in the Impressum.