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.

Reference › When something is wrong

Deposit has not appeared

Almost always answerable from your own wallet before contacting anybody.

Expected timings

StageRoughly
Broadcast to first confirmationAbout two minutes
First confirmation to creditAbout ten minutes
Worth investigatingAfter twenty minutes
Worth asking anybodyAfter an hour, with the transaction details ready

Check these in your own wallet

  1. Is it confirmed, and how many times. Unconfirmed after a long wait usually means a fee set too low, which is easy to do when entering one manually.
  2. Which address did it actually go to. Compare against the deposit page open now, not the one you remember.
  3. Was that address current. An address from an old session left open in a tab is a common cause and it looks like nothing is wrong.
  4. Did the full amount leave. Fee handling occasionally surprises people who set it manually.
The reaction that makes it worseNever send a second payment to fix the first. That turns one stuck transaction into two, accelerates nothing, and leaves you explaining a more complicated situation than you started with.

Why a fresh address each time

One time destinations are how a wallet separates incoming payments without linking them, which is most of the point of the currency. Reusing an old one defeats that property and can credit the wrong place if it has been recycled on the platform side.

The version that is not about the deposit

If the payment went out from an exchange that knows who you are, straight to the deposit address, the deposit is probably fine and something else has happened that matters more. The chain hop is private and the exchange record is not, and a withdrawal followed minutes later by a matching deposit is a pattern nobody needed to read the chain to see. That is covered in the money.