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.
This is the dossier for the nexus market mirrors trap where a stale line survives on a curated list and a reader copies from it as if the address the line names were the address the market uses today.
What it is
A curated mirror list is a page where someone has hand picked a set of onions for a market and printed them together. The list is only as current as the last time the author touched it. An address in the list can rotate off the market between two edits, or the operator can retire an address the author has not been told about, and the address stays on the list as a stale line.
The trap is not that the stale line is malicious. The stale line was correct once. It may have been the correct address for months. Now it is a valid v3 onion that opens on the tor network but does not open on the market, and a reader who copies from the list sees the address load and cannot tell that the load is not the market.
Where a stale line comes from
The author of the list stopped touching the page. A directory that was actively maintained becomes an archive when the person keeping it moves on. The three, four or five addresses on the archive still look like a mirror list. Only one or none of them is still current, and the archive does not say so.
A copy of the list from one directory to another is the second origin. The author of the second directory took the first as a source and did not verify each line before republishing. The second directory now carries the same stale line under a different masthead. A reader who compares two directories against each other and finds the same line on both may read the agreement as a check.
Lifeline
- A curated list where the line was current
- A stale line that still opens something
- A list read on a page that does not probe
How to catch it
The catch is a source that says out loud what it is. This site says out loud that it does not probe an onion. The three nexus market mirrors on the panel above are published as supplied, and the site does not claim any of the three opens right now. A reader who reads the source note before copying knows what the copy is worth. A directory that promises uptime without doing the work is a directory whose promises the reader cannot check.
- On a curated list
- Look for a note that says how the list is kept, and when the site last touched it. A list with neither is an archive.
- On a probed list
- A last checked date next to each line is a claim the site is making. Ask what the check was and how often it runs.
- On this site
- The panel above holds three nexus market mirrors published as supplied. The site does not claim which is up.
What this card does not claim
- It does not name any directory that has carried a stale line. Naming one would treat the stale line as a takedown target.
- It does not say this site is more current than any other. This site does not probe, so it makes no claim about currentness at all.
- It does not say every mirror list is stale. Some are kept up. The reader has no way of knowing which is which without a probe of their own.
A list that says what it is
A list that says out loud what it does and does not do is a list a reader can use with clear eyes. This site says the three mirrors on the panel above were supplied to the operator and are published in the order supplied. The site does not carry a status light, a last checked date or a ranking. A reader who has read this dossier knows what to take from the panel above and what not to.
How a page ages without saying it has
A page can age without changing shape. The layout stays the same. The text stays the same. The addresses stay the same. Meanwhile the market rotates its mirrors and the page is now behind. A reader has no way to see the ageing from inside the page, because the page shows no marker of its own currency. The only markers of ageing on a page are the ones the author chose to put in.
This site chose to put no ageing markers in the visible copy. That is a decision, not a lack. A visible date on a page that does not probe would be a claim of freshness the page could not defend. Leaving the date out makes the page honest about what it knows and what it does not.
What the reader can do in the meantime
A reader who is unsure whether a line on any list is still current has one clean fallback. Try the address in the tor browser, one at a time, and see which one loads. A load that reaches the market login is the address that is current for the reader in that moment. A load that does not reach the market is not, and no reading of any list can substitute for the load itself.
The reader who runs the loads themselves is the reader whose knowledge is fresh. A list adds a summary and a shape. It does not add a probe. This site is comfortable with that trade off and says so on every page. The reader benefits from knowing where the line falls between what the list carries and what the reader has to check for themselves.