About this page

What this site is

A plain page that publishes the onion addresses of one marketplace, and a handful of instructions around them. It exists because a v3 onion address is 56 characters long, because nobody types 56 characters correctly, and because the address that used to be printed on the market’s own clear web page is currently sitting behind a domain auction placeholder.

It is not the storefront. There is no catalogue on it, no vendor list, no message thread and no order status, and that is the design rather than an oversight.

Who keeps it

One person, who has spent most of a working life around hidden services and has watched enough of them open in the spring and vanish in the autumn to be unimpressed by the word secure in a marketing sentence. The site carries no photo of a team and no invented job title, because those are the two things a page like this would have to make up, and a directory that has to make up its staff has usually made up something else as well.

The reason it exists at all is narrower than a business plan. A wall of eleven near identical addresses has already lost the argument, and a directory that prints three and explains how to check them has not.

How an address gets on the list

1. It appears in an announcement the market operators signed with their own PGP key. A post that nobody can verify does not get published.
2. It resolves to a service that answers, and the page behind it carries the same login screen and the same order pages as the addresses already listed.
3. Its prefix and its closing characters are compared against the signed text by hand, character by character, and the date above the list is the date that comparison was last done.
4. An address that stops answering for good is dropped from the list rather than left on it with a red label. That is why there are three entries here and eleven on some older directory.

What this page never does

• It never shows a login box. There is nothing here to type a password into.
• It never claims to see a balance, a message or an order. There is no account state on this server to see.
• It never sells a position in its own list. Nobody paid to have an address appear higher, because the addresses are not sorted into a ranking.
• It publishes no uptime percentage, because a page that cannot hold a session inside a hidden service has no business publishing a number it cannot reproduce. The status page explains that position.

The honest limitations

This is a static page on ordinary hosting behind an ordinary content delivery network, which means it can be taken down, censored or misconfigured in ways a hidden service cannot. It carries no live measurement of anything, so the word checked above the list means a person compared two documents on a date and not that a probe is running against three endpoints.

It is also one directory among several, and the numbers disagree. One monitor says the market has been offline for months with an average uptime of zero, another has not refreshed a reading in eleven months, and a third still lists eleven mirrors for a service that currently answers on three. Where sources disagree, the page says so and prints the disagreement rather than picking the prettier number.

Who it is for

People with a phone and a slow connection, people on a metered plan who do not want a storefront full of scripts, and people who have already been to a page that looked like this market and asked for a password. Everything here is written to be read at Safest security level with JavaScript switched off, and it is.