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Why market addresses rotate and what it means for you

Covers 2020 onwardReading time 6 min

Address rotation confuses people more than any other market behaviour, and the confusion itself is what gets exploited.

Why it happens at all

Hidden services absorb sustained floods. Running several addresses spreads that load and means an attack on one does not remove the market. Rotating them makes a sustained campaign harder to maintain, since the target keeps moving.

What stays the same

Everything that matters to you. Account, password, balance, order history, open disputes and vendor reputation all live behind whichever address you use, because the addresses are doors into one building rather than copies of a site. Switching mid order costs nothing.

What goes wrong

A user finds their usual address quiet, assumes the market is gone, searches for a new one, and signs in on the first plausible result. That sequence is responsible for a very large share of all money lost around markets, and every step of it feels reasonable at the time.

The habit that prevents it

None of that is sophisticated. It is just the difference between the people who find outages boring and the people who find them expensive.

Verified addresses referenced in this archive

Verified Nexus Market addresses
M1nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onion
M2nexusma2iegzo7atzwbrwxhcdopyri3vare2twibldnlc3txqjdeb5yd.onion
M3nexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onion

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