Osiris market addresses

Published as supplied, tested by nobody

Three onion addresses, listed in the order they were given. This page makes no claim about any of them. What it can do is explain what an Osiris market link proves, which is less than most people assume.

1.The addresses

They are printed below in the copy panel, and the copy button exists because retyping a fifty six character string by hand is how people end up somewhere they did not intend to be. One wrong character does not produce an error page. It produces a different address, which may belong to somebody.

2.What this page does not tell you

It does not tell you whether an Osiris market mirror is reachable. This site does not connect to them, does not time them and does not keep a record of attempts. Any page that shows you a green tick beside an onion address is showing you the state of its own cache at some unstated moment, which is not the same thing as the state of the network.

It also does not tell you which address is best, because there is no honest way to rank them from here. They are listed in the order supplied. That order carries no meaning and no page on this site labels one of them primary.

3.What an address can prove

An onion address is derived from a key, so reaching one means you are talking to whoever holds that key. That is a real guarantee and it is stronger than the equivalent on the ordinary web. It just answers a narrower question than people want it to.

It says nothing about whether the operator is honest, whether the site is the one you were looking for, or whether the address you have is the one the operator published. Every failure this site collects sits in the gap between those two facts. A bookmark that outlived the address covers the most common version.

4.How addresses go wrong for readers

• The address was copied from somewhere with an interest in changing one character.
• The address was correct once and the reader kept using it after it stopped being current, which is an address saved and forgotten.
• The address was typed by hand and a character was lost, which is the pasted-but-not-sent problem in a different form.
• The clipboard held something else by the time it was pasted, covered in the clipboard entry.

5.Why this sits in a reversibility index

Because address mistakes are the cleanest example of the rule the site runs on. Before you press enter the situation is fully reversible and costs nothing to check. After you have logged in somewhere, it is in the minutes group. After you have sent money, it is in the group with no window.

Three groups, one action, and the only thing that moved you between them was ten seconds of checking. That is a better argument for care than any warning this page could print.

Questions people send in

Which Osiris market mirror should I use?

This site will not answer that. It has no basis for a recommendation and inventing one would be the same failure it criticises elsewhere. The three addresses are listed in the order supplied.

Why is there no last-checked date on this page?

Because there was no check. A date implies a test happened. None did, and a stale date is worse than no date because it looks like information.

Do you keep a longer list of Osiris mirrors?

No. Three addresses is what this site was given and three is what it publishes. A longer list would mean guessing, and guessing about addresses is how people end up somewhere they should not be.