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A short answer. TorZon publishes five and the other eight publish three each. Twenty nine strings across nine markets, and one of them accounts for five of those.
| Market | Since | Coins | Addresses | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TorZon Market | 2022 | BTC, XMR | 5 | Global, English |
Why the count matters at all
Onion services are easy to overload and get attacked as a matter of routine. An address under attack is unusable whether or not anything behind it is wrong, so having more of them is the difference between a bad afternoon and being locked out entirely.
It also gives operators somewhere to move quietly. An address can be retired without an announcement while traffic keeps arriving at the others, which is less disruptive than every user discovering at once that the one door is closed.
What a bigger set costs you
| Cost | Why |
|---|---|
| More strings to keep straight | Five saved addresses is more to compare against and more to let drift |
| More room for a near miss | A longer list is a better place to hide one extra line that does not belong |
| More chance your saved copy is stale | With five, the odds that at least one has been retired since you saved them go up |
The habit that makes it manageable
None of that is an argument against a larger set. It is an argument for keeping a dated file instead of relying on recognising a familiar opening, which is the habit this whole catalogue keeps returning to because it is the one that actually holds.
What the count is not
A safety rating, a quality signal or evidence about the operators. It is a fact about infrastructure. A market with five addresses and bad dispute handling is worse to use than one with three and good handling, and this catalogue cannot see either of those things.
If three is your number
Then every other entry here qualifies and this filter has not narrowed anything. That is a real outcome for a filter and it is worth saying rather than inventing a ranking among the eight. Move on to age or to the coin you hold, both of which do separate them.
Why every market does not just publish ten
Each address is a service to run, keep patched and keep reachable, and every one of them is another thing that can be attacked or misconfigured. There is a real cost on the operator side, and a set of three is the size most of this catalogue has settled on, which suggests it is the point where the cost stops being worth it for them.
What to do with a larger set as a reader
- Save all of them, not one. A single saved address from a set of five is the same single point of failure as a market that only has one.
- Keep them in one block with a date, so the whole set can be compared at a glance rather than string by string.
- Expect the set to shrink and grow. Rotation is routine and unannounced.