Mars Market onion link & mirrors
Mars keeps more onion addresses live at any given moment than any other shop on this list. When the active address gets attacked, you just paste another one from the announcement and keep going. For people who lost orders because a shop went dark for two days during a flood, this is the practical reason to use Mars.
What Mars is known for
More live addresses than anything else here
The largest simultaneous set on this directory, which is a deliberate resilience choice rather than an accident of history. For you it means the practical failure mode, one address being slow, almost never becomes the real failure mode, no address answering. Keep the whole list rather than a favourite and switching costs nothing beyond a fresh connection.
Three coins and the fee question
Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero. Litecoin is the underrated one on a shop like this: it confirms in a couple of minutes rather than ten and its fees stay low and predictable, which matters when a Bitcoin fee during a busy period can take a visible bite out of a small order. It records exactly as much as Bitcoin does on the ledger, so it buys speed and not privacy.
A strong uptime record, read correctly
Uptime here means the addresses answered when they were checked, and that is genuinely useful for planning a session. It is not a statement about the operator, the escrow or the vendors, and treating a good uptime number as a trust signal is the most common way people misread a directory like this one.
Before you buy
We list Mars Market because its mirrors are answering and its address set is published. Listing is not a guarantee. Keep deposits close to what an open order needs, and never leave a balance sitting on a shop between orders.