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Bitcoin
Eight of the nine take it. The exception is BlackOps, which is Monero only. So holding Bitcoin costs you exactly one option out of nine, and something else that is harder to see.
| Market | Since | Coins | Addresses | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WeTheNorth | 2021 | BTC, XMR | 3 | Canada, English and French |
| TorZon Market | 2022 | BTC, XMR | 5 | Global, English |
| Nexus Market | 2023 | BTC, LTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Mars Market | 2023 | BTC, LTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Anubis Market | 2024 | BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Awazon | 2024 | BTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Osiris Market | 2024 | BTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Crown Market | 2024 | BTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
What the chain keeps
Sender, receiver and amount, written once and readable by anybody from now on. Not encrypted, not eventually deleted, not subject to anybody changing their mind. That is not a flaw in Bitcoin, it is the design, and it is the reason the network works without a central record keeper.
The practical consequence is that a payment made today can be looked at years from now by somebody who was not paying attention today. Nothing you do afterwards affects that.
On making it less traceable afterwards
Mixing, tumbling and similar services are frequently offered as the answer. They add a step, they add cost, they add another party who sees what you did, and the resulting pattern is itself something that gets looked at. If the public record is the thing you are worried about, the coin that does not create one is a cleaner answer than a service that tries to muddy one.
What it is good for
- Availability. Easier to get than anything else on this page, almost everywhere.
- Familiarity. More wallets, more documentation, fewer mistakes made out of unfamiliarity.
- Nearly universal acceptance here. Eight of nine.
The waiting part
Confirmations take longer than Litecoin and the fee climbs when the network is busy, which is where most deposit anxiety comes from. A deposit that has not appeared after an hour is almost always queued rather than lost, and sending a second payment is the single most reliable way to turn a waiting problem into a real one.
Who should still use it
People who already have it and are not going to convert, and people for whom the public record genuinely does not matter. Both are legitimate positions. What is not legitimate is thinking the record is not there because a market page did not mention it.
What the record actually looks like to somebody reading it
A chain of amounts moving between addresses, with times attached, permanently. On its own that is not a name. It becomes a name when one end of it touches something that knows who you are, and that connection can be made years later by somebody who was not looking at the time. Nothing you do afterwards unmakes it.
Where it is genuinely the sensible choice
- You already hold it and converting costs more than the exposure is worth to you. That is a real calculation and it comes out differently for different people.
- You are making one small purchase and the ledger entry is not something you expect to matter.
- The market you want does not take anything else. Which is eight of nine here, so this is rarely the binding reason.
The deposit anxiety it causes
Bitcoin confirmations are slower than Litecoin and the fee climbs when the network is busy, so most of the panic on this subject is about Bitcoin deposits specifically. A payment that has not appeared after an hour is queued rather than lost, and sending a second one is the most reliable way to turn a waiting problem into a real loss.