Darknet Safety Notes

Short notes on Tor, wallet hygiene, crypto address formats, and the Tor Browser security slider.

Short notes on Tor, wallet hygiene, address formats, and the Tor Browser security slider. Four pages, all plain-words, no marketing copy.

Articles

• Tor Browser Security Slider: Standard, Safer, and Safest Compared
  What the Tor Browser shield menu actually changes between Standard, Safer, and Safest, and when you should care about the difference.
• Why Some Onion Sites Are Slower Than Others (And When to Wait)
  What actually causes Tor hidden service slowness, why retrying the same address makes it worse, and the small set of decisions that fix most stalls.
• Cold Storage vs Hot Wallet for Marketplace Funds
  When to keep your crypto on the marketplace, when to pull it back to a wallet you control, and the small habit that keeps you from losing balance to the wrong failure.
• Reading a Crypto Address: BTC, LTC, and XMR Format Differences
  The three address formats you will see on a Tor marketplace deposit page, how to tell them apart at a glance, and what the format implies about cost and privacy.

Other handbooks in the same family

The GitHub Pages guides cover onion address verification, mirror rotation, multisig escrow, and crypto payments. The Netlify handbook covers Tor circuits, Monero ring signatures, vendor reputation, and DDoS resilience. A working marketplace example is the Nexus Market directory.