The three BlackOps Market addresses

They are equal, and we do not rank them

Most list pages number their mirrors, crown one of them, and call the rest "backup". We do not, because the market does not. The three exist in parallel, they hold the same data, and the set changes over time as the market rotates under attack and load. A ranking would be a story about the present that would be wrong next month.

The practical upshot: if the first address you try is slow or refuses to connect, the next one is not a fallback, it is the same shop with a different door. Switch and move on.

The copy ritual

1. Click the address once, press copy. Or select it all and copy. Either way, the string goes to your clipboard complete, all 56 characters plus the .onion.

2. Open Tor Browser, paste into the address bar, press enter. Do not retype it. The characters that cause the most damage are in the middle of the string, where the eye skips: 0 and o, 1 and l, 5 and s.

3. Let the first circuit build. Ten to forty seconds. The page that arrives is not the login screen, it is a short check page (more on that below).

4. When the login screen finally loads, read the last six characters of the address bar and compare them to your copy, character by character. Match: you are in. No match: close the tab, do not type a password, do not argue with it.

Note One wrong character in an onion does not give an error. It opens a different site, often a perfectly designed one, that someone chose deliberately. That is the whole game this address list exists for.

What you will see first

The front door is not the login form. It is a small page that says it is checking your browser, and it reloads itself after a few seconds, on its own. Two things people get wrong about it.

First, they refresh it, which restarts the check and makes the wait longer. It wants to be left alone for one full cycle. Second, they expect it to be instant. It is not. The check page sits on top of a Tor circuit that is still being built, and both of those take their time. If it has not moved after a full minute, rebuild the circuit (Ctrl+Shift+R in Tor Browser) or move to another address above.

No short versions, no wrapped versions

You will see truncated forms of these addresses in chats and forums, and you will see them wrapped in clearnet domains. Both are convenient, and both are where accounts go to die. A blackops market v3 address is 56 characters of base32 plus ".onion", exactly as printed here. Anything shorter is a different thing, and it said so without being asked.

Use the full string, exactly as printed here, and only inside Tor Browser. The short forms are for talking about the address, not for opening it, and the wrapped forms put a stranger between you and the market. Why the wrapped versions cost what they cost is explained on the clearnet page.