Accepted natively on Anubis, unusual for a market of this kind. Fastest of the four to confirm and the weakest on privacy because of the account model.
Escrow
Holding a payment in a 2 of 3 multisig contract until buyer and vendor agree the order is done.
Finalise-early (FE)
Confirming receipt before a package arrives. It releases escrow to the vendor and removes the dispute path.
Honeypot field
A decoy login input with a rotating name that traps automated fillers. Type into the visible real field only.
Mirror
A distinct onion address resolving to the same market. Anubis runs several for redundancy.
Monero (XMR)
A privacy coin that hides sender, receiver and amount. The default choice on Anubis.
Onion address
A fifty-six character v3 Tor address ending in .onion. Copy it, never type it, and verify against the login.
PGP signature
A cryptographic signature proving who published a message and that it is unchanged. Anubis signs its mirror list.
Recovery phrase
The words that restore an account if the password is lost. Store it on paper. No login ever asks for it.
Tile captcha
The Anubis login puzzle: six tilted-character tiles a human reads easily and a bot cannot.
Account model
How Ethereum tracks balances, with one address holding a balance and every transaction hanging off the same identifier. It is why address reuse is the default there rather than a mistake.
Circuit
The chain of relays carrying your traffic. Reaching a hidden service joins two chains end to end, which is where the six hop figure comes from.
Cold load
The opening request of a visit, which builds everything from scratch. It is the slow one, and its cost is amortised across every page you open afterwards.
Confirmation
Depth of burial for a transaction, counted in blocks stacked on top of it. Anubis waits for a few before crediting, and the wait differs by coin.
Descriptor
A signed record a service publishes saying which relays will accept an introduction for it. If a client cannot find it, the result is a not found error before any connection is attempted.
Guard
Your fixed entry relay, deliberately kept for weeks. Changing it often would multiply the chances of drawing a hostile one rather than reduce them.
Origin
The browser filing system for cookies and storage. Each Anubis address gets its own drawer, which is why sessions do not follow you between them.
Release timer
The automatic escrow release that stops an abandoned order locking funds forever. Opening a dispute pauses it.
Throughput
The capacity of your path, capped by its weakest relay. Independent of responsiveness, which is why a page can appear instantly and its photos never finish.
Two factor
A second login proof. Here it means decrypting a short challenge with your own key, since a phone number would be an identity nobody wants attached.
Vanity prefix
The recognisable start of an onion address, produced by generating keys until one matches. Cheap for a few characters, which is why phishers use the same trick.
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