Nexus market onion, third address

The third nexus market onion on this site is the last line of the panel above. It uses a different vanity variant from the string a couple of sister sites publish for the same market, and that is on purpose.

What it is

This is the third of three onion strings pinned to this site. The vanity prefix here spells a slightly different short tail than the third mirror on some of the other sites on the same fleet. Two sites can publish two different valid v3 onions for the same market at the same time. This site publishes the one the operator was handed.

A reader who has been to another nexus market site recently might have a different third string in memory. That is not proof either string is wrong. It is proof the operator of one of the two sites was handed a different address, or that the operator of one site kept an older string on the panel after a rotation. The dossier does not settle which is which.

Lifeline

Shape of the string

Length

56 characters before the .onion label.

Letters

49 lowercase letters, all a reader can count on the string above.

Digits

7 base32 digits.

Vanity prefix

A different variant from the one that appears in the third slot of some other sites in the same fleet. The two are not typos of one another. Both are valid v3 onion addresses in their own right.

Checksum tail

The last two characters before .onion read qd. If a paste ends in a different pair, the paste is not this string.

Why the third slot is the one that moves

The first and second addresses on a market panel tend to be the ones the operator uses in messages and prints in signed announcements. The third slot is where a spare or a newer address lands. When a market rotates, it is usually the third slot on somebody's panel that changes first.

That is why the third slot on this site does not match the third slot on every other site in the same fleet. Each site was handed its three addresses at a slightly different moment. Two sites can be correct at once and still disagree about which string sits in the third slot.

How a reader can verify without a probe

1. Copy the string from the panel above with the button next to it.
2. Count the characters, without spaces, before the dot. There should be fifty six.
3. Confirm every character is either a lowercase letter or a digit between two and seven inclusive. Anything else is a signal the paste picked something up.
4. Compare the last two characters against the checksum tail listed in the table. If those two characters do not match, the paste is broken.

Engagement

What this card does not say

• It does not say which vanity variant is more current, because the site does not probe.
• It does not link the string to any operator handle.
• It does not treat this string as a fallback or as a preferred one. The three are published in the order supplied.
• It does not carry a suggestion about which of two disagreeing sites is right, because there is no honest way to make that call without a probe.

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