Nexus market url, second onion

The middle line of the panel above is the second nexus market url this site publishes. Its vanity prefix reads the same as the first for a few characters, then walks away.

What it is

This is one of three onion strings the operator of this site pinned. Its dossier is short by design. The site knows the string and knows what a reader can count on the string, and that is all. Nothing about the fastest of the three, nothing about the safest.

The order the three addresses appear in on the panel above is the order they were supplied. Middle here means middle of the panel, not middle in a ranking. A reader who reaches for the middle line by habit is picking one address in the same way as picking a hand of cards from the middle of a deck. That is fine. The three lines are all the same kind of pointer to the same market.

Lifeline

Shape of the string

Length

56 characters before the .onion label, the same fixed length as any v3 onion.

Letters

49 lowercase letters. A reader can recount them in the text of the panel above.

Digits

7 base32 digits, drawn from 2-7.

Vanity prefix

A short readable head at the front of the string before the body of the address begins. The head reads the same as the first address for a short run, then walks away into its own tail.

Checksum tail

The last two characters before .onion read qd. The tor browser rejects any address whose checksum does not compute, so those two characters carry real weight.

How the vanity walks away from the first one

The vanity prefix on the second string starts with the same four letters as the first. After that, the two strings differ. That is normal for a set of vanity prefixes ground for the same market. Grinding a longer shared prefix costs more compute, so a set of two or three mirror addresses will usually only share the first few characters.

A reader who checks only the first four characters of an address before pasting it is going to match this string against a lookalike that happens to spell the same first four. The check that separates the second mirror from a lookalike is the checksum tail and the middle block.

Engagement

What this card does not say

• It does not say this is the mirror to use if the first one does not answer. The three are not ordered by fallback.
• It does not carry a status light or a last checked date. This site does not probe onions.
• It does not name any operator, mirror manager or forwarder. The dossier is about the string, not about a person.
• It does not put the string in the middle of the reader's decision. It only says the string is what it is.

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