Appendix
Glossary
Every term in the directory, defined plainly.
- Anti-DDoS queue
- A waiting-room page in front of the login that holds every visitor for a short spell, so bots cannot hammer the captcha behind it. TorZon is the entry filed for it.
- Bond
- A refundable deposit a new vendor posts before listing. Forfeit if the account is suspended in probation, which makes a smash-and-grab vendor account cost real money up front.
- Captcha address check
- Reading the onion address a market prints into its login captcha and holding it against the address bar. A fast, per-session catch for lookalike sites.
- Dispute
- A formal disagreement over an order. A moderator reads signed evidence from both sides and co-signs the escrow release toward whichever side the evidence favours.
- Escrow
- The arrangement that holds a payment in a multisig contract until buyer and vendor agree the order is done, or a moderator settles a dispute.
- Finalise-early (FE)
- Signing your escrow release before the package arrives. It empties the contract to the vendor and removes the dispute path. The one move the directory warns against on every entry.
- Hidden service
- A server reachable only through Tor at a .onion address. Every market in this directory is one. A normal browser cannot open it.
- Mirror
- A distinct onion address that resolves to the same market, with the same account, balance and orders. Markets run several so a flood on one does not take the market down.
- Multisig (2 of 3)
- An escrow contract with three keys held by buyer, vendor and market, where any two release the coin. The market alone cannot move it because one key opens nothing.
- Onion address
- A fifty-six character v3 Tor address ending in .onion. Copy it, never type it, and verify it against a signed list before entering a password.
- PGP signature
- A cryptographic signature proving who signed a message and that nothing has changed since. Markets sign their mirror lists so you can confirm an address is genuine.
- Probation
- The escrow-only window a new vendor runs before earning finalise-early. Their standing shows on the profile, so you can read it before ordering.
- Safest
- The top Tor Browser security level, which turns scripting off everywhere. The correct setting for every entry in this directory.
- Signed mirror list
- A market address list published with a PGP signature. Verifying it against the market key is how you know an address was published by the market and not an impersonator.
- Withdrawal PIN
- A second secret, separate from the login password, required to move a balance off the market. TorZon enforces one, so a stolen session cookie alone cannot empty the account.