The Nexus Market news desk
A standing index of what this newsroom covers, who writes it, and the rules each desk works under.
This page exists so readers can tell what kind of thing they are reading before they read it. A newsroom covering a Tor market publishes several very different sorts of material, and mixing them up is how people end up treating an opinion column as an operational advisory.
The three desks
Operations. Mirror changes, downtime, flooding incidents, and reproductions of signed platform announcements. This is the desk with the shortest lead time and the strictest sourcing rule, which is that nothing runs without a signature we can check. Operations copy is deliberately dull. If it reads like it is trying to make you feel something, it is not from this desk.
Analysis. Longer pieces on how the platform works and why it changed. Weekly rather than daily. Analysis is allowed to draw conclusions, and those conclusions are the writer's rather than the platform's. Everything in this category is labelled as such at the top of the page.
Reference. Standing pages that answer a recurring question and get corrected rather than republished. Most of what search engines send people to lives here. Reference pages carry a modified date and no byline, because they are maintained rather than written once.
Sourcing rules
- A platform announcement runs only if it carries a signature that verifies against the fingerprint
0x7F2A0A9D. Unsigned material may be reported as a claim, attributed, and never as fact. - Forum posts, chat messages, and screenshots are not sources. They can be evidence that a rumour exists, which is a different story from the rumour being true.
- Latency and reachability figures come from our own probes over Tor. Numbers taken from anywhere else are attributed to whoever produced them.
- Corrections are appended to the page they correct, dated, and never quietly folded into the text.
What we do not do
No advertising, no paid placement, no affiliate arrangements with any market. This matters more in this beat than most, because the standard business model for a site covering Tor markets is to take money from the markets it covers, and readers have no way to tell from the outside which sites do.
We also do not break addresses. If a new mirror surfaces and we cannot verify the signature on it, it does not go on the page, even when the address later turns out to have been genuine. Being second to publish a real address costs a reader nothing. Being first to publish a fake one costs them their account.
Reading us during an incident
The pattern worth knowing is that this newsroom goes quiet in the first hour of anything. That is not us missing the story. It is the operations desk refusing to publish a guess while the cause is still unclear, because a guess that has to be corrected during an incident does more damage than the silence did. If a Nexus mirror is unreachable and this site has said nothing, the correct reading is that the cause is not yet established, not that nobody noticed.
Verified working Nexus Market mirrors
Three v3 onion addresses currently serving the production market, signed under PGP fingerprint 0x7F2A0A9D. Use the Copy buttons.