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Longer walkthroughs for when nothing is broken and you want to understand the whole path rather than fix one thing.
The whole path from a clean Tor Browser to a confirmed delivery on BlackOps, in the order you actually do it, with the mistakes that catch people marked out.
How to buy Monero, hold it in a wallet you control and fund a BlackOps order so the deposit lands the first time without a shortfall or a missing payment.
The account setup that makes a stolen BlackOps password useless, and the storage habits that keep you from locking yourself out.
What 2 of 3 multisig escrow actually does on BlackOps, how a dispute is weighed and decided, and the single action that removes the whole protection at once.
Why BlackOps runs several onion addresses, what stays the same when you switch, and the search that costs people their accounts.
If you have never used a market like this, read the first order guide from top to bottom before doing anything else, then set the account up alongside the security guide rather than afterwards. The two together cover the decisions that are difficult to change later, which is a short list but an important one.
If you have ordered before and something specific is unclear, the payment and escrow guides stand on their own. The address switching guide is worth reading before you need it rather than during an outage, since the whole point of it is that the thinking should already be done by the time an address goes quiet.