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.

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Glossary

Defined as used across this reference, which is not always how they are used elsewhere.

TermMeaning
Onion addressFifty six characters computed from a public key rather than assigned by anyone. Cannot be seized, and proves nothing about who runs it.
CircuitThe path your client builds through relays. A bad one produces failures identical to a service being down, which is why building a new one is always the first thing to try.
FingerprintA short hash of a public key, comparable by eye. The thing you pin. The key file itself is disposable.
InterstitialThe checking screen before a login page. It protects the service from automated load and provides you no protection at all.
EscrowAn arrangement where funds move only when two of buyer, vendor and platform sign. The platform key is a tiebreaker, not a veto.
Parked balanceFunds held on the platform and not committed to an order, therefore outside escrow and outside every protection.
One time addressA destination a wallet issues per payment so two payments cannot be linked by where they went. Reusing one defeats the purpose.
ReplayPresenting a genuine old signed statement as current. Signatures never expire, so this works unless you read the date inside the signed text.
Near missAn address matching the recognisable opening of a real one and differing in the middle. What people mean when they say an address was cloned.
RotationRetiring addresses and introducing new ones with an overlap where both work. Routine, and never announced with a deadline.
Rate limitingSlowing or refusing connections based on behaviour, since a hidden service cannot see identity. It looks identical to rejection.
The boundaryWhere money converts from something with a record into something without one. Where nearly all real exposure comes from, and not on the chain.
Delivery windowThe period after which a dispute becomes appropriate. Filing before it closes is the most common self inflicted mistake.
Clipboard substitutionSoftware on your own machine replacing an address between the copy and the paste. Checking a signature does not catch it, and reading the ends does.

Terms this site avoids

Dark web, which names no network and describes nothing technical. Deep web, which means content not indexed by search engines and is mostly bank statements and intranets. Both appear in search queries, so they turn up in a page title or two, and neither is used in an explanation because neither is precise enough to build an argument on.