[peterwwillis]

Your word is incredibly important for criminal enterprises. If you fuck someone over and somebody finds out, nobody will ever do business with you again (besides the whole 'getting shot' thing). Escrow services (by way of a middle-man you both trust) are only necessary for really big jobs. In general you pay first and get your goods once payment is confirmed.

[pbhjpbhj]

I can see that working in meatspace but here we're talking about selling an idea on the web - the buyer is very unlikely to be able to track you so they're unlikely to front the money.

Suppose you found a bug, couldn't cash it in with Google because of where you live and so were selling it on. The buyer won't release the funds, would you really give up the goods? Even with an escrow, proving the transfer and performing the transaction with minimum risk seems problematic to me.

[flylib]

- the buyer is very unlikely to be able to track you

the buyer will probably be easily able to track you, if they are paying 100k for hacks on the black market, they would have the resources to find you easily

[pbhjpbhj]

Yet they're getting the cracks from you .. which suggests you're good enough to be able to hide yourself away. Use anonymising proxies to connect to a machine that you Tor off to a BTC wallet that only takes in washed coins, or something. Even being able to spend 100k on [potential?] server cracks doesn't seem enough resources to be able to take down Tor?

If they try and trace you just send a spike!!1111one

[flylib]

true, but any small mistake in the process on your part can come back to hurt you, look at how silk road got taken down