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 › Before you start

Before you start

Five things. Every procedure page assumes all five, and the failures described in the conditions section are almost always one of them being absent rather than anything going wrong later.

Why these five and in this order

Each one depends on the one before it. A verified address is meaningless without a key to verify against. An account is not worth protecting until you can reach it reliably. Money should be the last thing you introduce, not the first.

People generally do this backwards, starting with the money because it feels like the real step, then discovering the others when something has already gone wrong. The order below costs an hour once and removes most of what the rest of this site describes.

If you do one thingIf you only do one, do the key. Every other protection described anywhere on this site assumes it, and without it verification is a ritual that proves nothing.