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Three Awazon Market addresses, and one variable at a time

Most pages about a darknet market change six things at once and then tell you the result was better. This one changes a single thing per record, holds everything else still, and writes down two answers: what moved, and what did not move at all. The second answer is usually the more useful one.

IWhat this record is for

You have three Awazon Market onion addresses above. Getting one of them open is rarely the hard part. The hard part is the fifty small decisions layered on top: which network you are on, which browser, whether you paste or type, which coin you send, whether you keep one account or two, whether you go looking for a new link the moment an old one stalls. Each of those is a variable, and almost every guide on the subject bundles them into a single lump called "being careful".

Bundling hides the thing worth knowing. Some of those decisions change your exposure enormously. Some change nothing whatsoever and only feel like they do. A few make things worse while feeling responsible. You cannot tell which is which until the variables are separated and tested one at a time.

• A record here fixes a baseline: one defined setup that every substitution is measured against.
• It changes exactly one thing in that setup, and names what the change is in plain words.
• It states what moves as a result, and, in the same weight of type, what does not move.
• It ends with what the substitution costs you, because most of them cost something.

IIThe six groups of variables

Thirty-one substitutions are filed under the part of the setup they touch. Nothing here is ordered by importance, because importance depends on which of them you were about to change.

IIIThe shortest version of the whole site

If you read nothing else, four substitutions carry most of the weight, and three of the four cost nothing.

1. 01Paste instead of typing. An Awazon onion is fifty-six characters of base32. Retyping it puts a human in the loop at the exact point where a single swapped character sends you to a copy of the login screen. Record A5.
2. 02Read the tail, not the start. Every address above starts with the same word. Clone builders know that, and they buy the vanity prefix and change the middle. The last six characters are the part nobody bothers to match. Record A2.
3. 03Rebuild the circuit before you conclude anything. A stalled address usually means a bad path, not a dead market. Rebuilding costs one click and resolves most of what people report as an outage. Record N1.
4. 04Slow down after an address stops answering. The hour after a stall is when people accept a link from a stranger. That is the single most expensive hour in this whole subject. Record T2.

IVWhat this page will not tell you

There is no green dot on this site, and no percentage next to any address. Over Tor the question "is it up" has no general answer: your client picks its own relays and builds a fresh path each time you click, so a string that refused somebody else a minute ago may well answer you at once. A figure that looks like certainty and is not is worse than no figure. If you want the question answered for your own connection, the procedure takes about three minutes and it is written out in record T2.

VWhere people usually start