Mars Market Reference Plain descriptions of what each step involves, what you will experience, and where it can go wrong

Mars Market addresses

Three published addresses for the same market. Copy rather than retype, and check the signature once you are through.

Address 1 marsautkudspgk6j23cxdtrk36ae4fpis2eoe7izu5y2rsksvmfji2ad.onion
Address 2 marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion
Address 3 marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and the check that settles it takes under a minute.

A reference for people who want to know what happens next Ten procedures, eight things that commonly go wrong, and the preparation each of them assumes. Written the way a clinic writes a patient leaflet, because the questions are the same shape: what is about to happen, how long will it take, what will I notice, and what should worry me.

Welcome

Most writing about markets tells you what to do and skips what it will be like. That gap is where people get anxious, and anxious people make the mistakes this reference is trying to prevent. Every procedure page here answers the same eight questions in the same order, so once you have read one you know where to look on all of them.

How this reference is organised

Four sections. If something is broken right now, start with the third. If you have not done any of this before, start with the first and read in order.

SectionWhat is in itRead it when
Before you startFive things every procedure assumes you already haveOnce, before anything else
ProceduresTen steps, each with the same eight headingsBefore you do that step for the first time
When something is wrongEight presentations, sorted by what you are looking atSomething is happening now
ReferenceAddresses, risks and limits, definitions, questionsWhen another page sends you here

The eight questions every procedure page answers

Borrowed from medical information leaflets, which have spent decades working out what a person actually wants to know before something happens to them.

What this step is
A plain description, without assuming you know why it exists.
How to prepare
What has to be in place first. Usually one or two things from the preparation section.
What you will see
The screen, the wait, the wording. Knowing this in advance is most of what stops panic.
How it works
The mechanism underneath, to the depth that changes what you should do.
How long it takes
Realistic figures, including the part people find slow.
What you will experience
The subjective version. Waiting, uncertainty, the moment it feels like something went wrong when it did not.
What can go wrong
Failure modes in order of how often they happen.
Benefits and limits
What the step protects you from, and what it does not touch.
The section people skipThe last row is the one to read twice. Almost every bad outcome in this subject comes from a protection being real but narrower than the person believed.

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What this site does not do

It does not monitor the addresses at the top of the page. It publishes them and says so, because an availability figure it cannot back would be worse than no figure at all. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and only the signature check separates the two.

It also carries no advertising, takes no money from any market and has nothing to sell. That is worth stating plainly, because the usual business model for a site covering this ground is to be paid by the thing it covers, and readers cannot tell from outside which sites are. Nothing here covers products, sourcing, packaging or avoiding detection.

Common questions

Which of the three addresses is the right one?

All three are published addresses for the same market. None of them prove anything by appearing here, which is why every page points at the check rather than asking you to trust the list.

Is this the market itself?

No. This is a reference site written by readers. It cannot recover an account, refund an order, or act on your behalf in any way.

Why is there no uptime number anywhere?

Because nothing here measures anything. Figures published elsewhere almost always measure whether an address answered, which a convincing fake also does, usually faster.