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Frequently asked questions
The questions that come up again and again, answered the way we would answer a friend. No marketing, no hedging, and a clear line on what we can and cannot tell you.
It is a clearnet directory of active darknet markets. You pay nothing and there is no account to make. It lists the current onion mirrors for each shop and explains what each one accepts. We are not part of any listed market and we do not take a cut of anything you buy.
They are the addresses each market has published, rebuilt whenever a shop rotates. We verify that an address answers over Tor, but the source of truth is always the market itself. Before you log in, confirm the address against the market's own announcement, because that is the one check a copy of the site cannot fake.
More often than people expect. Markets rotate addresses in response to floods, seizures, and routine maintenance. Some rotate every few weeks, others only when something forces them to. That is why a saved bookmark eventually goes stale and why this page is rebuilt rather than left to rot.
The deep web is everything not indexed by search engines, which is most of the internet, including your email and bank. The dark web is the smaller part of that reached through Tor, where both the visitor and the site hide their addresses. All dark web sites are deep web, but almost no deep web sites are dark web.
Usually no, and sometimes it hurts. Tor already exits through a relay, so a VPN in front of it mostly adds a layer your ISP sees but the destination does not. The one case where a VPN helps is protecting your ISP from seeing that you are using Tor at all. Run it before Tor, not after, if you use one.
Using Tor and visiting a .onion address is legal in most places. What varies by jurisdiction is what you do once you are there. Browsing is generally fine; buying and selling certain goods is not, everywhere. This site is informational and is not legal advice for your specific situation.
If you care about not leaving a permanent public record of the payment, Monero is the answer, because it does not write one. Bitcoin and Litecoin both record the amount and both addresses on a public ledger. The choice is really about whether you would be comfortable with that record existing, not about speed or fee.
It depends on what you had on it. Money attached to an open order is usually recoverable through escrow and the dispute process. A balance sitting on the platform between orders is exposed to whatever happens to the platform. The standing advice is to deposit for the order in front of you and withdraw the rest, which limits the damage to a single transaction.
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