A prerequisite map for Zion Market. Read the arrows, not the list. Dependency map Onion addresses
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This is not a to-do list and not a walkthrough. It is a set of conditions and the arrows between them, so you can see what your problem is actually waiting on.

Zion Market onion addresses, printed here exactly as they were supplied

Two strings, reproduced character for character as they were handed to this site. Neither one is ranked above the other and neither carries a label, because a label would be a claim and this site is not in a position to make one. Nothing here opens them, so nothing here can tell you what happens when you do.

If this is false

The map read the other way round. For each condition, everything that stops. Use it to price a failure rather than to diagnose one.

The dependency map is arranged for diagnosis: you arrive with a symptom and walk backwards. This page is arranged for the opposite job. You arrive with a condition you are not sure is worth the effort, and you want to know what it costs if it is false.

What the lists below are

For each condition, everything that directly waits on it. These are first order consequences only. The full cost is larger, because each item in a list has its own list, and following two or three levels of that from an early condition covers most of the map. Where a condition has nothing waiting on it, the page says so, and that is a real answer rather than a gap.

How to use it before anything is wrong

Read down the page and stop wherever a list looks longer than you expected. That gap between the effort a condition takes and the number of things waiting on it is the useful signal. Several of the cheapest conditions on this map, ones that cost a minute or a piece of paper, are directly upstream of four other conditions each.

The reverse is also worth noticing. A few conditions that feel serious and technical carry exactly one arrow. They are still worth getting right, but they are not structural, and knowing which is which is most of what a map is for. Roots and endings takes that comparison to its two extremes.

Every condition, and what stops when it is false

A1 The machine is one you actually control

If this is false:

A2 The clock is close enough to right

If this is false:

A3 Nobody else can read the screen

If this is false:

A4 Losing the device does not lose the account

If this is false:

B1 The browser came from the Tor Project

If this is false:

B2 The client can build a circuit at all

If this is false:

B3 There is a route out of the network you are on

If this is false:

B4 The security level was set before the first page loaded

If this is false:

B5 The browser doing this does nothing else

If this is false:

Nothing else on this map falls over. The cost is contained to this condition alone.

C1 You hold the address as characters, not as a click

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C2 The string has the shape an onion address has

If this is false:

C3 The address arrived by a route you can use again

If this is false:

C4 The address is kept somewhere that outlives the browser

If this is false:

C5 You can tell a mirror from a copy of the market

If this is false:

D1 The account name is used nowhere else

If this is false:

D2 The password exists somewhere outside your head

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D3 You can produce the second factor on demand

If this is false:

D4 The recovery phrase is written down before it is wanted

If this is false:

D5 You can log in a second time

If this is false:

E1 A wallet exists and the keys are yours

If this is false:

E2 The balance has confirmed and can be spent

If this is false:

E3 You hold the coin this order is priced in

If this is false:

E4 The deposit address came from the session you are in

If this is false:

E5 There is something left over for the fee

If this is false:

F1 The listing is one you have actually read

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F2 The other side answered before you spent anything

If this is false:

F3 The delivery address is written the way the post wants it

If this is false:

F4 What you send is encrypted to a key that exists

If this is false:

F5 The total is covered at the moment you press the button

If this is false:

G1 Somebody can take delivery at that address

If this is false:

G2 The name on the parcel fits the door it arrives at

If this is false:

Nothing else on this map falls over. The cost is contained to this condition alone.

G3 You decided in advance what happens if nothing arrives

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G4 You can wait without doing anything

If this is false:

H1 Escrow is still holding when the problem appears

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H2 You can describe the problem in the market's own terms

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H3 Feedback goes up after the outcome is known

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H4 You can come back tomorrow and still be you

If this is false:

Nothing else on this map falls over. The cost is contained to this condition alone.

Connected to this one

A2 The clock is close enough to right A3 Nobody else can read the screen A4 Losing the device does not lose the account B1 The browser came from the Tor Project

Where you are in the map

A Ground you are standing on

B A path to the network

C An address that is the market

D A session that is yours

E Value you can move

F An order that can exist

G A parcel that can arrive

H A close you can live with