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THE MARKET LIVES ON TOR. THIS PAGE DOES NOT.

The three addressesone market, one account, behind each

blackops27m32abqvbhnyswgazqawxqbznbzkkkv5sjo7gve2ndpsdad.onion
blackops5l63qnwnmlnsfvtlu66md3x3vp3fdtpna42eq7ozujr67hid.onion
blackops6kignp3eddmvqcfkjzf6qr6haxbmkypc2xtqlnhuu4ak4dqd.onion

Reference

The words these pages use

The vocabulary of this niche is small, and most of it was invented by people selling something. The definitions below are the working ones: short, accurate, and free of the parts that are there to make a page sound more certain than it is.

Onion, .onion
A hidden-service name that only the Tor network can resolve. The three addresses on this site are onions, and the market behind them is reachable through them and nowhere else.
v3 onion
The current onion format: 56 characters of base32 plus ".onion", derived from an Ed25519 key. The older v2 format is 16 characters and is retired for new services. Anything claiming to be BlackOps in fewer than 56 characters is a different thing.
Mirror
A second entry point to the same service: same accounts, same balances, same orders. The market runs several at once so that an attack on one does not close the others. Nothing ranks them, because the market does not.
Clearnet
The ordinary web, as opposed to the onion side of Tor. A directory like this one lives on the clearnet; the market does not.
Gateway, onion-to-web
A server that fetches a .onion page for a clearnet browser and shows it. The convenience is real and so is the cost: the gateway sees the address you visit and your requests. Fine for reading, a handover for signing in.
Canary
A short fixed string a site prints on its own pages so a visitor can confirm the page is the one they think it is. If the canary is missing or different, the page is not the market, whatever its design says.
Circuit
The Tor path your traffic takes, normally through three relays. "New circuit" means a new path. First circuits are slow because they are being built; later ones in the same session are fast because the path already exists.
Bridge
A Tor entry point that does not advertise itself, used when the standard entries are blocked on your network. Slower, and the price is patience rather than privacy.
Escrow
Money held until both sides complete the deal. On BlackOps it is a 2-of-3 multisig per order: you, the vendor, and the market each hold a key, and two of the three are needed to move the funds.
Sub-address
A derived receiving address, fresh per order on this market. It keeps each order's funds separate and a compromise limited to one order instead of a pile.
XMR, Monero
The privacy coin the market leads with. Ring signatures, stealth addresses, and confidential amounts mean the public ledger does not show who paid whom how much. Bitcoin was added later, and its deposits are visible on a public chain.
PGP
The encryption used for messages on the market. A message is a record of what you bought and where it went; PGP is what keeps the record yours.
Verified (vendor)
The market's mark for sellers that passed its checks. It narrows the field and carries extra escrow protection. It is a signal, not a guarantee, and the word belongs to the market, not to the directories.
Rotation
The market publishing new addresses and retiring the old set, usually under sustained attack on the current one. A rotation is announced through the market's own channels; an unannounced "new address" is a claim.
DDoS
The traffic attack that floods one entry point until it stops answering. It is the reason markets run several addresses at once, and the reason a dead mirror is rarely a dead market.
Typosquat
A fake that differs from the real name by one or two characters, chosen from the set of characters that look alike. The address you typed is the one that opens, and the one that opens is not always the one you meant.
Homoglyph swap
The specific typosquat move: 0 for o, 1 for l, 5 for s, placed where the eye skips. Why the check is done on the tail, character by character, instead of by glancing.
Clone
A copy of the market's design on a different address or domain, usually with a working login form. The design is free to anyone; the address is the only part a clone cannot borrow.