Strings
This section forgets what the strings point at and looks only at what they are made of.
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.
Why start with the shape of the string
An onion address is not a name that somebody chose. It is a chunk of key material written down in a restricted alphabet, and that origin shows in its shape. It has a fixed length. It uses a fixed set of symbols. It has no structure a reader can lean on, no vowels in the right places, no syllables, no words.
That makes it a genuinely hard thing for a person to handle, and most of the trouble people have with nexus market mirrors comes straight from that difficulty rather than from anything clever. So the first section on this board measures the difficulty instead of talking around it.
The panels in this section
- How long each address isA fixed length, decided by the format and not by anybody.
- The symbols an address can containA restricted alphabet, and what it rules out.
- The opening all three shareA chosen prefix, and the weakest part of any check.
- Where the three part companyThe exact position where agreement ends, counted.
- Digits, and where they fallHow many, and how unevenly they are spread.
- What repeats inside an addressAlmost nothing, and the empty result is the result.
- How far apart the three arePairwise distance, and what a near miss would have meant.
- The character they all end onA fixed ending, and the one place sameness is guaranteed.
Reading this panel wrong
2 ways it happens- Assuming a longer shared opening means the addresses are related.The shared opening is a chosen vanity prefix. It says the operator generated keys until they got that start. It says nothing about what any of them serves.
- Reading alphabet coverage as a quality score.Coverage is a side effect of random key material written in base32. A set that touched fewer symbols would not be worse.
What this panel is not: a way of deciding which address is the real one. The arithmetic here describes strings, and any string can be described.