Questions, answered

The three public mirrors sit at the top of every page. Copy one, paste it into the Tor Browser, wait out the circuit, and check the last six characters of the address bar against the list before you log in.

No. Same market, three front nodes. Same accounts, same escrow, same order history. If one address is slow on your circuit, the next one is the next one; there is no primary and no fallback.

Usually it is a circuit problem, not a market problem. Wait it out, build a new circuit, then take the next address. A real outage is announced as a signed post on the market Dread board, and an address change lands there too.

The market entry filter: a night city image with circles and squares, and you click the shape that has a cut in it. Thirty seconds, and it refreshes when the timer runs out. It is there because the login page is the most copied page of its kind, and the captcha keeps scripts out before they see a password field.

To register, yes, because the key you paste at signup is the address all market mail goes to, and recovery works through that mail. To browse and look at listings, no. Generate the keypair first, because every later step assumes it exists.

The schedule is published inside the market, in the information section, and it can change with an announcement. The stable shape: deposits are free, withdrawals carry a fee with a flat and a percentage part, and each completed order carries a small percentage.

You can, and the gateway reads everything between you and the market, password included, and can show you a copy of the market instead of the market. Tor Browser is the path where the only reader of your traffic is the market itself.

Addresses change, and the old one does not announce it, it just stops answering. The current list is at the top of this page, and the signed list on the market Dread board is the source it is kept in sync with.

Verify the address before you believe the message. The market verifies you through PGP, a signed code you sign back, not through a link and a familiar looking form. A link in a message is the phisher's delivery method, not the market's.

Two places: the market Dread board, where confirmed fakes are posted to the public list, and PGP support, for the ones you are not sure about yet. A fake that is reported becomes a line in the list, and the list is what the next person finds.