I'd also avoid new, amateur sellers who claim that they can accept crypto off of the platform. Not only it this a major ToS violation, but it's unsafe. A seller in our gig category (a highly regulated industry) posted this in his Q&A:
Our firm received the blue check mark last week. We're in a tightly regulated industry where many in our gig category aren't licensed or transparent with their credentials thus we see the verification shield as a good thing.