Catalogue

The catalogue

The nine markets

Oldest first, because age is the only quality on this site that cannot be manufactured quickly. Everything else in the table is a fact about what a market advertises rather than about how it behaves.

What each market page contains

The same four things, so you can move between them without relearning the layout: the published addresses, what is checkable about the market, who it suits given the constraints on this site, and what it does not tell you.

• WeTheNorth2021, the oldest here, and the only one not aimed at everybody.
• TorZon Market2022, and the only one publishing five addresses instead of three.
• Nexus Market2023, three coins including Litecoin, three addresses.
• Mars Market2023, identical to Nexus on paper, which is the interesting part.
• Anubis Market2024, and the only market here that takes Ethereum.
• Awazon2024, standard profile, and a lesson about arrival years.
• Osiris Market2024, three addresses, and what rotation does to a saved set.
• Crown Market2024, and a name common enough to be a problem in itself.
• BlackOps Market2024, and the only one on this site that takes Monero and nothing else.

Why the list is nine and not ninety

Because a longer list would be padding. Adding a market that appeared last month means adding a row with no track record, and a directory that treats a two week old shop the same as one running since 2021 has stopped sorting anything.

Nine is what there is with enough history to say something dull and true about. When one of them stops publishing addresses it comes off, and it comes off without a farewell paragraph.

The one number worth reading

How many addresses a market publishes. It is not a quality score, but it is the only operational fact in the table, and it tells you something real: a market running five addresses has more room to lose one without going dark than a market running one. TorZon publishes five. Everything else here publishes three.