Nexus market mirrors, as published on this site
nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onionnexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onionnexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onionPublished as supplied. This site does not probe an onion, so nothing here is a claim that a given address opens for you right now.
Typing a nexus market url from memory is the shortest path there is. The person is the source, the keyboard is the carrier, and the address bar is the destination.
What it is
Typing a nexus market url from memory is the shortest path there is between a person and the address bar. The source is the person, and the carrier is muscle memory. No paste buffer touches the string, no file holds it, and no screen shows it before the address bar does. If the reader cannot bring the whole run back at once, the path fails on the spot, because it has no fallback of its own.
The path can make one big claim about the string, which is that no medium in the middle could have swapped a character or clipped a run. That claim comes at the price of holding a fifty six character run of base32 letters and digits in short term recall. Most readers cannot hold the whole thing, and the part of a nexus market url that gets walked without help is the first block of the vanity prefix and not much beyond it.
How the memory holds the string
The memory a reader really uses when they type a nexus market url is not a picture of the whole string laid out in front of the eyes. It is the sound of the first few letters, the shape of the prefix as it has appeared before, and the rhythm of the keys under the fingers. After the first block the fingers take over from the eyes, and the recall runs as a pattern rather than as a list of characters.
- Vanity prefix
- The first characters that read as a word. This is the block the reader recalls consciously, letter by letter, and can say back out loud.
- Middle body
- The random middle of a v3 onion. Almost no one holds this consciously. The fingers pick it up only if they have typed it before, and the recall breaks here for anyone new to the string.
- Tail and checksum
- The block that closes the string. Recalled as a rhythm on the keys, not as a sequence of letters. If the rhythm stumbles, the recall is over.
Where the memory came from
The memory of a nexus market url almost always started as a paste from somewhere else, then took a few typings to set. That means the strength of this path always comes down to the strength of the path that seeded the memory. A memory seeded from a signed list is a different thing from one seeded from a forum thread that has since been edited without notice. This path does not really stand on its own.
There is one case where the memory beats every other path on the site. When the reader has typed a nexus market url for long enough, the muscle memory is trained on the exact prefix pattern. A fresh trap that changes the prefix in a way the fingers were never trained on will fail to type through the same muscle memory. The reader notices it as a stumble on the keys, not as a wrong string in front of the eyes. The path catches what the eyes might have missed, but only when the muscle memory is old enough to have something to protect.
What can slip
- A lowercase l typed where the memory holds an uppercase I. The memory records the shape, the keyboard records the key, and the two are not the same thing.
- An o typed where the memory holds a zero. A v3 onion has no zero at all, so a zero on the address bar is always wrong.
- Two letters swapped, which is what happens on any run of typing that outruns the recall for a moment.
- A run repeated by the fingers when the conscious recall had already moved on to the next block. The address bar then shows the run twice.
Lifeline
- Held in memory, not on any screen
- Being typed into the address bar
- In the address bar or lost after a reboot
What the path keeps, what it drops
The path keeps every part of the string that the memory kept. If the memory held a full string, the path delivers a full string. If the memory held only the prefix, the path delivers only the prefix and stops. This behaviour is different from every other path in this rubric. Every other path has a medium in the middle that can add or remove characters. This path has no medium at all, so the only thing that can go wrong sits inside the reader.
The path also drops any freshness the source might once have had. A reader who typed a nexus market url once and remembered it is typing that same version back. If the mirror has rotated since, the memory has not rotated along with it. The path is at its most reliable for the first few days after the string was learned, and gets less useful the longer it has been sitting in the head.
What to check after typing
- The vanity prefix on the address bar reads the same as the one the memory holds. A prefix that reads slightly different is either a memory miss or a trap someone put in front of the memory.
- The visible run on the address bar is fifty six characters plus the four characters of the .onion label. A different length is a typo somewhere in the middle body.
- No zeros, no ones, no capital letters and no punctuation other than the single dot before onion. Any other character is a wrong keystroke.
- The string is one long lowercase run with no spaces. A space is a wrong keystroke that a memory-based path almost never introduces, but it is worth glancing for anyway.