Reading
The string is fixed and the reader is not, so this section measures the reader side of the problem.
Nexus market addresses in this board
copy, do not retypenexusb2l73qzjn4slhyfxa3jvpolw7fomiz5sgyyefnsdhikaqgborqd.onionnexusma2iekjhhyenua3u4zlyfsj2ubwxr2nt6gdte5rvwukzze63fyd.onionnexusabcdbnjw6or46y3hh6uicsl4xvu5cncfp27hkggznvtxhxlngad.onionPrinted as supplied, in no order, with nothing marked best or main. This board never opens an address, so nothing on this page says one of them is reachable for you now.
The gap between checking and feeling checked
Almost nobody reads a full onion address. People read the front, glance at the back, and stop. That is a rational response to a long string, and it works fine most of the time, but it is worth knowing exactly how much of the address that habit leaves untouched, because the answer is most of it.
These panels put numbers on that. Not to tell you off, and not to insist you compare all of it every time, but so that when you decide to skip the middle you are making a decision rather than an assumption.
The panels in this section
- Symbols the eye tradesA named set, counted, with the count kept in proportion.
- What a front and back check provesThe most common check, measured honestly.
- The part nobody readsWhere attention drops, and why it is the worst place for it to drop.
- Reading an address in blocksThe one manual technique that measurably helps.
- Copying rather than typingEvery position has to be right, and nothing warns you when one is not.
- The stretches you cannot sayLong runs with no vowel, and what they do to memory.
- Reading an address out loudEvery way dictation fails, and what to do instead.
- What a check cannot reachThe questions no string comparison will ever answer.
Reading this panel wrong
2 ways it happens- Treating the traded-symbol count as a warning about these addresses.Every base32 string of this length has a similar count. The number describes the alphabet, not the operator.
- Thinking a fuller check makes the destination safe.Reading every character tells you the string matches your source. It says nothing about whether the source was right.
What this panel is not: a verification service. Nothing here checks an address against anything, because the board holds no reference copy other than the three it prints.