8 short reads · no account needed
Guides for getting in and staying in
Eight short reads, in the order a new buyer actually needs them. Each one covers one thing, does not repeat the others, and ends with the part most people get wrong. Read them top to bottom and the first order is a formality.
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Install Tor Browser the right wayWhere to download it, what the Safest setting does, and the three mistakes that give people away before they even reach the market.
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Your first visit to BlackOps MarketWhat you will see on the login screen, how the captcha works, and what to do before you type anything in.
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How to verify a BlackOps onion linkThree checks you can do in under ten minutes before you trust any link, including the ones people post in chat.
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PGP without the headacheGenerate a key, import ours, sign a test message. No theory, just the five commands you will actually use.
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Getting Monero for your first orderThe cheapest ways to hold XMR, what a cold wallet is, and why your bank may ask questions at certain thresholds.
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Placing an order, step by stepFrom search bar to paid escrow: the exact sequence, what each button does, and where people usually waste money.
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Disputes: what actually happensWhen to open one, what evidence wins, how long mediation takes, and the cases where the admin will side with the vendor.
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Shipping times by regionRealistic windows for the US, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America, plus what slows a package down and what does not.
How to read these
The order is the point
The guides are numbered the way a first order actually happens, not the way a table of contents usually is. You set up the browser before you visit, you visit before you verify a link under pressure, you get the coin before you place the order, and you understand the dispute before you need it. If you read them in this order, each one picks up where the last one left off, and by the time you reach the last one you have done the first order in your head several times over, which is the whole benefit. You have not spent a cent, and you have already made the mistakes on paper, where they are cheap.
None of the guides assume the others, so you can jump straight to the one you need. But if you are genuinely starting from zero, the sequence is the shortcut, and the shortcut is that it removes the guesswork from the parts that are easy to get subtly wrong. The market is not hard. It is detailed, and the details are exactly what these pages cover, one at a time, in the order that keeps them from biting you.