Two things that look the same

Pairs people confuse on Nexus Market, and the one test between them

Nexus market mirrors

nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onion
nexusma2iegzo7atzwbrwxhcdopyri3vare2twibldnlc3txqjdeb5yd.onion
nexusabcdpvtnivv6owtqjkvd22k5x3hlpofkgjqjmgzltlde6mwe2qd.onion

Published as supplied. Nothing here is monitored, so none of this is a claim that any address opens right now.

A board of pairs

Two things that look the same

Most of the trouble people run into on a market is not a hard problem. It is two ordinary situations that produce the same picture, and a reader who picks the wrong one and acts on it.

What this board is

Every page here takes one pair. Two things that arrive looking identical, named on the page before anything else is said about them. Then the page says why they look alike, gives a single test that lands on one side or the other, sets out what the error costs in each direction, and finishes with what to do in either case.

That is the whole format. There is no ranking, no severity grade, no score. A pair either has a test between it or it does not, and where a pair has no clean test the page says so rather than dressing up a guess.

The pairs came from the situations that produce the most wasted effort: an address that stopped answering, a deposit that has not appeared, a vendor who has not replied, a signature that verified. In every one of those, the picture on the screen is shared by a boring case and an expensive case, and the two get treated the same because they look the same.

Why a pair and not a list of causes

A list of possible causes leaves the reader holding the same problem they started with, only longer. Naming two things and putting one test between them ends in a decision. That is the only reason the site is arranged this way.

It also keeps the writing honest. If a pair really has five members rather than two, the page would have to admit it, and the pair would not be on the board. Everything here reduces to a fork.

The six groups

Addresses

Addresses / 7 pairs

Seven pairs about what a string is, what it points at, and what its silence means.

OPEN

Getting in

Getting in / 7 pairs

Seven pairs about refusals, and where each refusal is actually decided.

OPEN

Money

Money / 8 pairs

Eight pairs about waiting, and about what the waiting actually means.

OPEN

Orders

Orders / 6 pairs

Six pairs about dates, timers and flags, and who set each of them.

OPEN

People

People / 6 pairs

Six pairs about absence, reputation and who you are actually talking to.

OPEN

Words

Words / 7 pairs

Seven pairs about signatures, statements and what a good result actually means.

OPEN

The nexus market mirrors on this site

The three addresses at the top of this page are on every other page too, in the order they were supplied, with no labels and no numbering. There is no primary one and no backup one, because deciding that would need information nobody outside the market has.

Nothing here is monitored. No page states that a nexus onion link is up, no page carries an uptime figure, and no page has a last checked date on it, because no check is ever run. A published address is a statement about what was supplied, not a promise about what answers.

If you want the longer version of that position, the mirrors page sets it out, along with what a published nexus market address can and cannot tell you.

What is not here

This is a reference site and nothing more. It is not the market, nobody here is connected to it, and there is no route from this site to an account, an order, a dispute or a person. If you arrived hoping to reach somebody, this is the wrong door.

Where to start

If you have a live problem, go to the group it falls in and read the pair that matches. If you are just reading, how to read a pair explains the format in a page, and every pair puts all of them in one table with their tests beside them.

Questions readers send about this pair

Is this site run by Nexus Market?

No. It has no connection to the market, no access to it and no way to contact anybody through it. It is written by an outsider from the same public information any other outsider can read.

Do you check whether the addresses work?

No, and that is deliberate rather than lazy. A check made here says nothing about what happens when you try it, because the result depends on your own connection and on the moment. Publishing a status would be inventing certainty.

Why are the pairs numbered but the addresses are not?

The pair numbers are just an ordering so pages can be referred to. The addresses are not numbered because a number reads as a rank, and there is no rank here to report.

Every page here

AddressesGetting inMoneyOrdersPeopleWordsDown for now, or finished for goodOld address, or one built to be misreadSame page at two addresses, and only one is theirsThe redirect and the string it stands in forYour path through Tor, or the far endDid the set move, or did your copy slipLoading proves a server answered, and nothing moreRate limiting against a password that no longer matchesWhen the puzzle is broken and when the reader isA door you shut yourself against a lock somebody changedLogged out by a clock against logged out by a decisionA code that does not match against a clock that does notAn absence against a single character out of placeA wait somebody planned against a wait nobody didA deposit that is slow, or a deposit that is goneThe address expired, or it was never issued to youA rule about release, or a decision about youWho took the difference, the operator or the networkA saving on quantity, or a saving on protectionMoney back, or the end of the argumentStill moving, or already refusedStill settling, or short by a fractionA date with something behind it, and a date withoutOne request moves a clock, the other moves the moneyAsking for a ruling, or handing over informationA word in a database, and an event in a recordNothing new to report is not the same as bad newsA rule that runs by itself, and a date somebody prefersSilence and being ignored look identicalQuiet is not the same as goneFeedback tells you a mood, evidence tells you a factWhat a signature actually provesThe market only speaks in one placeAn empty history and a claimed historyThe result is good. Whose key was it?The same clean result, months apartYou cannot check an image, however clear it isOne of these strings was chosen by somebodyPosted where, and written by whomWho granted it, and what were they promisingTwo lists of addresses, two different guaranteesHow to read a pairEvery pairThe testsThe costsMirrorsQuestions