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 trap where the vanity prefix of a different market appears in a note labelled as nexus market, and the paste lands on a different market entirely.
What it is
A vanity prefix is a short readable head on an onion. Other markets have vanity prefixes too. A reader who keeps notes on several markets has several prefixes to hand, and the moment for the trap is when the wrong prefix ends up under the label for the right one. The reader glances at the label, glances at the prefix, sees a prefix that reads like a vanity string, and accepts it.
The address itself is not misspelled. Every character is a valid v3 base32 character. The full string opens somewhere on the tor network. The problem is that the somewhere is not nexus market. The reader logs in on the wrong market, or worse, pastes credentials into the wrong login page, because the note said nexus market and the string opened.
Where the mix comes from
A password manager with a single row per market is the most common origin. The row for nexus market ends up holding a string that belongs to a different market, because the reader pasted into the row from a wrong tab. A plain text note with several market names in a list is the second, when the paragraph break between the labels was lost in a reflow.
A chat log where the reader asked a friend for several addresses is the third. The friend sent them all together in one message. The reader saved them together in one place. The label on each address stayed close to the address at the time. A week later the labels drifted and the reader is not sure any more which prefix belongs to which market.
Lifeline
- A note kept for several markets at once
- The wrong prefix under the nexus market label
- One row per market on this site alone
How to catch it
The catch is a habit of storing the addresses for different markets in separate places, so that the label cannot drift onto the wrong address. On this site the label for a nexus market mirror is the string itself and the file card for it. There is no other market on this site, so the label cannot drift.
- On the panel above
- The three addresses on the panel above are all nexus market. There is no other market on this site to drift from.
- In a personal note
- One file per market. The label stays with the string because the file has one purpose.
- In a password manager
- One entry per market, with the vanity prefix visible in the entry name and the tail of the address visible in the notes field.
What this card does not claim
- It does not name any other market. This site is about nexus market and only nexus market.
- It does not print any prefix in full, of nexus market or any other market. The trap is the mixing of labels, and the card describes only that.
- It does not say every reader keeps notes on several markets. Many readers do not.
A single subject on every card
Every dossier on this site is about nexus market. No card here holds a second market as a comparison. The pattern of one subject per site is not a marketing choice. It is a labelling choice, so that a reader who copies from a page here cannot accidentally carry a prefix away that belongs to somewhere else.
Two labels read together
A reader who stores addresses for more than one market needs a way to read the label and the address as one thing, not as two separate things that live near each other. Storing the market name inside the file name for the note is one method. Storing the vanity prefix inside the label field of a password manager entry is another. In both cases the label and the address travel together and cannot drift apart between edits.
Reading the two together is a habit that pays off outside this trap too. A note whose label and content agree is a note the reader trusts on second reading. A note whose label and content disagree is a warning the reader can read before anything is pasted. A reader who has read the two together on this page can see how quiet the design is on that point. The word nexus is on every heading, every paragraph, every card.
What a reader takes from the panel above
The panel above holds three nexus market addresses. A reader who copies from the panel above is not choosing between market labels. The site is one label from top to bottom. That is the whole design against this trap on this page.
A prefix is a name, not a proof
A vanity prefix on any onion is a name a generator picked at the time the address was made. Two markets can share the first few characters of a prefix by coincidence, or by design, or because someone was trying to be helpful. None of those cases turns a name into a proof of identity. The identity is the full string, and the source of the string is the label that came with it.
A reader who has held this thought once holds it for every market. A prefix that looks vanity like is a hint. The label the address arrived with is the answer. The two together are a check. Neither one alone is enough to keep this trap from firing on the next paste.