The questions people actually type

No. This is an independent record. The market is run by its own team and lives on the onion addresses printed at the top of every page here. Nothing on this site takes an account, a payment or a message on the market's behalf.

Any of them. All three reach the same market with the same account, the same balance and the same open orders behind them. They are not ranked and the order on the page carries no meaning. If one stalls, open another. That is record A1.

Probably not, and nobody can answer that for you from the outside. Whether an onion opens is decided by the circuit your own client builds, and that circuit is new every time. Rebuild it, try the other two addresses, then open an unrelated onion you know works. The full three minute test is in record T2.

Because it would describe somebody else. A figure measured from a clearnet machine is one observer on one set of circuits at a moment that has already passed, and your path is built fresh when you click. A number that reads as certainty and is not is worse than no number.

Copy it from a current list rather than typing it, open it, and compare the last six characters in the address bar with the last six of what you copied. Every address begins with the same word because the market generated them that way, and a clone can buy the same prefix cheaply. The end of the string is the part nobody can match. That is record A2.

Through a clearnet gateway, yes, and it is a bad idea. A gateway has to decrypt your session to translate it, which means it reads your username, your password and everything else in it. Record A3 covers what that costs.

It hides your use of Tor from your internet provider and shows it to a company you pay. It changes nothing about which address you opened, whether that address is genuine, or what happens to a password typed into a clone. Record N5 sets out what each party sees with and without one.

It will open. The problem is that a mobile address bar truncates the middle of a fifty six character string, which is exactly where a clone differs, so the one check that protects you becomes something you have to work at instead of something you glance at. Read on a phone if you like; sign in on a machine where you can see the whole address. Record C4.

Yes. Addresses get rotated, and a retired one comes off this page while a new one appears. Take the set from a current page each time rather than from a bookmark you saved months ago, and treat an old saved address that suddenly works again as suspicious rather than lucky. Record A4.

No, and the reason offered does not matter. Escrow is the mechanism that makes a transaction between two strangers possible at all, and removing it removes the hold, the dispute path and any consequence for the vendor. Record M5.

Both reach the market. Only one of them writes a permanent public entry that can be re read years from now with better tools than exist today. Record M1 lays out what each ledger keeps.

Only as much as you would be comfortable losing in one event. A market balance is money in somebody else's custody, and nothing about your own setup protects it. The only variable you control is the size of the number. Record M3.

Both are real and both have a condition attached. Tails is right when the machine has to stay clean or is not yours. Whonix is right when a compromised workstation is a plausible worst case for you. Neither reads an address bar, so neither replaces the check in record A2. Records C5 and C6.

Read the last six characters of the address before you type a password. It costs two seconds, it works every time, and it defeats the entire class of attack that takes the most accounts. After that, generate a password used nowhere else, which takes ten minutes once.

No. There is nothing here to register for and nothing to log into. Copy an address and go. The only account that matters is the one on the market itself, and it is created there.