Filter
Filter by need
Nobody wants the best market. They want the one that takes the coin they hold, or speaks the language they read, or has been around long enough to have a reputation worth checking. Each page here takes one of those and does the sorting.
- Longest runningAge is the only column nobody can buy. Two entries stand out.
- Most addressesOne market publishes five. Everything else publishes three.
- Canada and FrenchOne market is regional and bilingual. The rest are not.
- First timeWhat actually matters on a first attempt, and it is not the market.
- A second marketWhy one is a single point of failure, and how to pick the spare.
- Newest arrivalsFive of the nine appeared in 2024. What that group has and lacks.
- One coin onlyFor people who want the decision taken away at checkout.
- Most payment optionsFour coins at one market, three at two others, two everywhere else.
- Addresses that do not spell the nameSeven markets publish addresses starting with their own name. Two mostly do not.
- Smallest set to maintainFor people who know they will not keep good notes.
How the filtering works
Every page uses only the four facts this catalogue can check from outside: the year a market appeared, the coins it advertises, how many addresses it publishes, and the language and region it aims at. Nothing else goes into the sorting, because nothing else is verifiable without taking a market at its word.
That means some of these pages have a short answer and say so. A filter that leaves one option leaves one option, and padding it out to look like a considered shortlist would be dishonest.
Where the sorting stops
Where two or more markets are identical across all four facts, no page here will pick between them. Directories do that constantly with phrases like best interface or best for beginners, and those are writers filling a column rather than facts about anything.
Which filter to start with
- The coin you hold, because if a market will not take it, nothing else matters. That lives on the coin pages.
- Language and region, if either is a real constraint rather than a preference.
- Then anything else. Age, address count and payment flexibility are all tiebreakers, and they only break ties.
The filters people ask for that are not here
| Asked for | Why there is no page for it |
|---|---|
| Safest | Not measurable from outside by anybody, including this site |
| Cheapest | Fees vary per listing and per order, so a market level answer would be invented |
| Fastest delivery | A property of vendors and post, not of markets |
| Best support | No way to test it without an account and a problem |
| Most listings | Changes daily and cannot be counted from outside |
Each of those would make a popular page. All of them would require either measuring something this site does not measure or repeating what a market says about itself, and the second is worse than the first.