Black Ops Market mirror guide
Three current addresses. One market.
Links to Black Ops go stale. Old forum threads, old bookmarks, old guide pages all carry dead onions that open nothing. The three addresses below are the live ones, and all three lead to the same market.
Current Black Ops Market addresses
Copy one of these into the Tor Browser address bar. They open the same market: same listings, same account, same wallet.
Why three addresses, and why they are identical
Black Ops runs several entry points so that one loaded or slow node does not hold the whole market hostage. There is no "main" mirror and no "backup". Each address connects you to the same storefront: the same vendors, the same order history, the same wallet balance. Your account does not change when the address does.
If the first one you try takes too long, do not sit with it. Pick another of the three and start fresh. Ten seconds of switching costs you nothing; an hour of waiting on one weak circuit costs you the morning.
Check the address before you check the password
A .onion address is 56 characters before the dot. One swapped letter does not give you an error. It gives you somebody else's page, and that page may well ask for your Black Ops password. Before you type anything sensitive, compare the first four characters and the last six in the address bar against what you copied. All three addresses start with blackops.
Nothing appended. The address must end in .onion and stop there. If your browser shows the onion inside a longer domain with a .watch, .to or similar tail, a clearnet gateway is in front, and that gateway sees everything you send, including the login.
Open it in Tor Browser
Paste, wait, verify. Six steps from a cold start to the login page, and what a correct load actually looks like.
Step by step →Spot the fake mirrors
Old mirror lists are full of look-alike onions. The character-by-character test that catches them in thirty seconds.
The verification test →The onion will not load
Most "the market is down" moments are a bad circuit, not a dead market. Here is how to tell the difference.
Work through it →Keep the account intact
Email, password, 2FA. Ten minutes of setup that decide whether a stolen session is an annoyance or a loss.
The setup →