Verified BlackOps onion addresses

Why the market publishes several

A hidden service absorbs floods. One address means an attack closes the market for everybody until it passes. Several means an attacker has to hold all of them at once, which is considerably harder, and a slow address becomes an inconvenience rather than an outage. Switching costs you nothing because they are doors into the same market rather than copies of a site.

Copy rather than type

Fifty six characters reproduced by hand is how people end up one letter off, on an address somebody registered specifically to catch that mistake. Use the copy button and paste it in. If you keep addresses offline, check them against this page before use rather than trusting a note written months ago.

The check that matters

When the login screen appears, compare the onion printed on it against your browser address bar. A cloned page reproduces the design perfectly because the design is served to anyone who asks. What it cannot do is display the real address while living at its own, and that contradiction is the whole test. The entry on address mismatch covers what to do if they differ.

During an outage

Use another address from this page rather than searching for one. The search that follows a quiet address is where nearly every phishing loss begins, and it is completely avoidable by keeping a verified source saved. The database entry on pages that will not load has the full sequence.