Catalogue

Reference

How this list works

A catalogue that spends forty pages telling you not to take claims at face value owes you an account of its own, including the parts where it is weakest.

The four facts used for everything

FactWhat it isWhy it is usable
Year of arrivalRoughly when the market first appearedCannot be manufactured with money
Coins acceptedWhat the market advertises at checkoutA claim, and one you can test in a minute
Published address countHow many strings are in circulationCountable from any published set
Language and regionWho it is presented toVisible from the market itself

That is the entire toolkit. Everything on this site sorts, filters and compares on those four and nothing else.

What was deliberately refused

Not hereWhy
Uptime or a status lightNothing here is monitored, and a status nobody maintains is worse than none
A last checked dateIt would be a claim about right now that stops being true by lunchtime
Safety or trust scoresNot measurable from outside by anybody, including this site
A best marketDepends on a constraint the reader has and the catalogue does not
Escrow and dispute descriptionsOnly knowable by taking each market at its word, or by having an account and a problem
Listing countsChange daily and cannot be counted from outside
Paid placementNever offered, never accepted, stated here so you can hold the site to it

Where the addresses came from

From published sets, copied as given, in the order they were published, with no labels and no numbering. Nothing was tested, opened or probed, and this site will never do that, because a claim about whether an address is up would be stale within the hour and would need a monitoring apparatus that does not exist here.

Twenty nine addresses across nine markets. Eight markets publish three each and one publishes five.

What a published address claims

A published address is one claim only: this string is in circulation. It does not claim the address opens, and it does not claim that whatever answers there is the market. Those are three different statements and only the first is being made anywhere on this site.

Where this catalogue is most likely wrong

  • Address sets drift. They were current when written down and stop being current on no schedule. Compare against a second source before relying on one.
  • Coin support changes without announcement, and it is the fact most likely to be out of date here.
  • Arrival years are approximate. Markets do not have registration certificates, and a year is assembled from when a thing became visible.
  • Nothing here describes behaviour. How a market handles a dispute is the thing that actually matters and is exactly what an outsider cannot see.

Why the list is nine

Because those are the ones with enough history to say something dull and true about. A longer list would mean adding rows with no track record, and a catalogue that treats a two week old shop the same as one running since 2021 has stopped sorting. When an entry stops publishing addresses it comes off, without a farewell paragraph.

The modification date

The date in the page markup follows real edits to the text, not the day you happen to be reading. A date that advances every morning while nothing changes is the most common dishonest signal on sites covering this ground, and it is worth naming rather than quietly avoiding.

What this site cannot do for you

Reach an account, release an order, pass a message to anybody, or find out whether an address is working. It is a catalogue written by somebody with no relationship to any of the nine, which is the only position from which a catalogue like this is worth anything and also the position from which it can do nothing practical on your behalf.