exchange

Even though there were reports of Cryptoexmart dot com being a scam months ago, the website is still there. It's registered by and hosted by PublicDomainRegistry.com and hosted by Qservers.net, which means those are pretty abuse-resistant (or no one filed any complaints). Let's review the…

Changelly is a platform for both quickly buying Bitcoin and purchasing altcoins (using credit cards processed by Simplex), while Shapeshift.io is primarily an exchange service that lets you convert cryptocurrencies. Some features of both platforms overlap, but there are differences between both…

Almost all the services promoted with comment spam are service affiliates dropping their referral links to get commissions when webmasters and comment readers sign up through their links. Normally, we don't pay attention to spammy automated comments that contain referral links. However, when the…

A reddit user has reported that he was asked for an ID by the P2P Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins. The message says that the user has a "high transaction volume" and therefore has to provide an ID. The company blog has no announcements related to LocalBitcoins going full KYC/AML. It's hard to…

Paxful is a peer-to-peer online marketplace with a built-in escrow mechanism. Bitcoin sellers list the amount of BTC they are willing to sell and the payment methods they accept and Bitcoin buyers search and select the offer they are interested in. Both parties exchange payment details and then…