Clearnet directory
Three addresses. One market.
BlackOpsLinks publishes the three onion addresses for the BlackOps Market, in full, on every page of this site. Copy one, open it in Tor Browser, and check the address before you sign in. That is the whole product, and the rest of this page says why it is built this way.
Why there are three of them
A market that lives on one address can be taken down with one attack. So the market keeps several entry points at once, and the set rotates when one of them gets hammered. That is what the blackops market mirrors are: the same market behind several doors. All three addresses on this page hold the same market: the same accounts, the same balances, the same open orders. Signing in on any of them lands you in the same place.
Notice what is not on the list above: no numbers, no "primary", no "backup". The three are equal, and ranking them would be an invention we could not stand behind. If one is slow tonight, the move is to open another, not to work out which one is supposed to be the good one.
The three steps, in order
Copy, never type. Select the address, copy it, paste it into the Tor Browser address bar. A v3 onion is 56 characters of base32, and the typos that matter (an 0 for an o, an l for a 1) hide in the middle where nobody looks twice.
Wait out the first circuit. The first page of an onion takes ten to forty seconds because Tor is building the path through three relays. The same session is fast afterwards. Do not refresh the first time; that is the one time refreshing costs you the circuit you were waiting for.
Check the tail, then sign in. When the login screen loads, compare the last six characters of the address bar against the copy you made. Two seconds. It is the only check that separates the real thing from a perfect forgery.
What this site is
A directory. It prints addresses, it explains how to use them, and it stops there. There is no shop here, no login form, no wallet page, no "secure portal" button. The market itself is not on the clearnet at all: the trading happens on Tor, behind the addresses above, and the login form belongs to that side. The mirror sites around this market usually rank the addresses and crown one of them. We do not, because the ranking would be ours, not the market's.
Which means a useful test. If a page that calls itself BlackOps asks for your password on the ordinary web, it is not the market. It is wearing the market's design, which is the entire trick, and the address bar is where the costume falls off. The full set of checks is on its own page.
Four things to know before you use the list
- There is no uptime figure and no green dot anywhere on this page. Over Tor, whether an address opens is decided by the circuit your own client builds, and that circuit is new every time. What to do when it will not open.
- The addresses are printed as plain strings, not wrapped in a clearnet gateway. A gateway reads everything you send through it; a string you paste into Tor Browser does not.
- Nothing here asks you to register, log in, or fill anything in. The only account that matters is the one on the market, and it is created there.
- This is not the operators. It is a list kept by people who use the market, and the list is the whole business.
Where to go from here
The addresses
The three onions in full
The copy ritual, what the first screen looks like, and the six-character check before a password.
Setup
Tor Browser from zero
Where to get it, the security level that fits this site, and what to expect from the first connection.
Trust
The clone is perfect. That is the trick.
How fakes work, and the four checks that catch them: length, tail, front door, canary.
Outages
A dead link is rarely a dead market
The checklist for when an address stops answering, in the order it should be run.