Frequently asked questions
The questions people actually ask, answered the way we would answer them in person. No marketing, no “we’re excited to”.
A mirror is a second onion address for the same market. It is not a copy and it is not a different shop. Every mirror of a market opens the same account, the same balance and the same basket. The reason markets run several is that an attacker has to take down all of them at once for the shop to go dark, so a mirror is a spare entrance rather than a duplicate.
Match the address in your browser bar against the market’s own announcement. Several markets print the real onion inside their login captcha or in the page header on purpose, so a copy of the page cannot fake both at the same time. Never type an address by hand from memory, and never trust a page that looks right. The address bar is the only thing that tells you where you actually are.
It depends on what you are comfortable leaving in a public record. Bitcoin and Litecoin write every payment to a ledger anyone can read for as long as the chain exists. Monero produces no public record at all, which is why most regulars use it. If you do not care about the record, pick on convenience. If you do, the extra effort of acquiring Monero is the whole price of the difference.
Escrow holds your coins until you confirm the order arrived, which is what makes buying from a stranger workable. What it does not cover is a balance sitting on the platform between orders. That balance is exposed to whatever happens to the platform. Deposit for the order in front of you and withdraw the rest, rather than keeping a standing balance.
Not for long. A balance on a market is a balance the operator controls, and every market that ever ended was operating normally the day before. The habit that keeps you safe is to fund an order when you place it and move the rest out when it is done. Uptime and trust are separate questions, and a shop that is always up is not automatically one you can trust with a balance.
No. This site is built to be read over Tor and does not require JavaScript, cookies, or an account. We do not run a search box that phones home and we do not embed third-party trackers. What you see is what the server sends.
No. We list markets because their mirrors answer and their address set is published. We do not take payment from them, we do not run any of them, and we do not take orders from them about what to list or how to describe it.
It depends on where you live and what you do. Accessing a darknet site may be legal in some places and not in others, and a purchase may be treated differently from a visit. Nothing on this site makes any of that lawful for you, which is a question for your jurisdiction, not for a directory.