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- order book based exchanges like bitstamp, kraken, coinbase pro - brokers like coinbase, there are loads of local brokers in various countries - otc desks, for

- order book based exchanges like bitstamp, kraken, coinbase pro - brokers like coinbase, there are loads of local brokers in various countries - otc desks, for bigger transactions, wealthy and lazy clients, privacy oriented clients - p2p exchanges like paxful, localbitcoins - mining - payment processing (bitpay, coinify) - AML/KYC services like chainalysis, elliptic - selling luxury/expensive stuff for btc for those who got rich too quickly - lawyer, accounting, tax related services - selling precious metals for crypto - prostitutes (?) - gambling - privacy oriented services (vps, vpn, domains etc) Grey area - blackmail SEO services - mixers - purse.io style services Illegal - ponzi schemes - ransomware - online drug markets - hacking, phishing, fraud markets - scams - hacked server credential markets (have heard about this, not sure though it exists)

spurdoman77 6y ago
Forgot the most important: issuing tokens, launching ICOs and new cryptocurrencies.
ev1 6y ago
I went on the BTC forums for the first time in years because of this thread; it used to be filled with wide-eyed people that wanted to change the world in a way before all the regulation hit, with at least somewhat interesting libertarian discussion. The entire market subforum is illegal, except for one or two. It's gone to literal shit. Hacked server credentials, "cheap server for mining!!" VMs purchased via stolen credit cards and resold for spam, attacks, and crypto mining until they get shut down for abuse or chargeback, hacked .edu emails, hacked MSDN credentials, cracked software for money (it's a 50% chance they're offering stolen-credit-card-acquired keys, and a 50% chance they'll just send you probably_trojan_crack_keygen.exe and tell you the software needs this patched to work and to not download it from the official source). Plenty of abusive services on offer, like "we'll upgrade your dropbox to pro for life" where the instructions are to send them your email and password and they just add a stolen credit card to pay annually. The usual shitty "buy likes and followers on social media" scammers where their own account has 9 obviously bot followers with half naked women profile images, and nothing else. Random half page selection: https://i.imgur.com/LiG25q8.png https://i.imgur.com/LiG25q8.png
- spurdoman77 6y ago
  I bought the dropbox thing years ago... they just added lots of fake referrals which increased the available storage. I also bought fake followers and what not. I was young and stupid, wouldnt do it again. But obviously there is demand for that stuff, what can you do.
  - ev1 6y ago
    Oh no, it's not the add 2GB with ref thing, it's "get pro plan with lifetime warranty". Apparently everything everybody sells comes with "warranty". Probably explains why there's pages of people complaining about things like this: https://i.imgur.com/FOzDIjD.png https://i.imgur.com/FOzDIjD.png I just found it funny that a "genuine 100% real followers" shop can't even get followers for themselves. Plenty of financial crap: https://i.imgur.com/C5VZoAs.png https://i.imgur.com/C5VZoAs.png

spurdoman77 6y ago

Forgot the most important: issuing tokens, launching ICOs and new cryptocurrencies.

ev1 6y ago

I went on the BTC forums for the first time in years because of this thread; it used to be filled with wide-eyed people that wanted to change the world in a way before all the regulation hit, with at least somewhat interesting libertarian discussion. The entire market subforum is illegal, except for one or two. It's gone to literal shit. Hacked server credentials, "cheap server for mining!!" VMs purchased via stolen credit cards and resold for spam, attacks, and crypto mining until they get shut down for abuse or chargeback, hacked .edu emails, hacked MSDN credentials, cracked software for money (it's a 50% chance they're offering stolen-credit-card-acquired keys, and a 50% chance they'll just send you probably_trojan_crack_keygen.exe and tell you the software needs this patched to work and to not download it from the official source). Plenty of abusive services on offer, like "we'll upgrade your dropbox to pro for life" where the instructions are to send them your email and password and they just add a stolen credit card to pay annually. The usual shitty "buy likes and followers on social media" scammers where their own account has 9 obviously bot followers with half naked women profile images, and nothing else. Random half page selection: https://i.imgur.com/LiG25q8.png https://i.imgur.com/LiG25q8.png

spurdoman77 6y ago
I bought the dropbox thing years ago... they just added lots of fake referrals which increased the available storage. I also bought fake followers and what not. I was young and stupid, wouldnt do it again. But obviously there is demand for that stuff, what can you do.
- ev1 6y ago
  Oh no, it's not the add 2GB with ref thing, it's "get pro plan with lifetime warranty". Apparently everything everybody sells comes with "warranty". Probably explains why there's pages of people complaining about things like this: https://i.imgur.com/FOzDIjD.png https://i.imgur.com/FOzDIjD.png I just found it funny that a "genuine 100% real followers" shop can't even get followers for themselves. Plenty of financial crap: https://i.imgur.com/C5VZoAs.png https://i.imgur.com/C5VZoAs.png