BlackOps Market — questions & answers
BlackOps Market topic hub. Monero-only settlement, concurrent onion pool, escrow with moderated disputes.
BlackOps Market onion endpoints — verified set
Current v3 onion endpoints for BlackOps Market. Verify the full 56-character fingerprint against the operator’s PGP-signed announcement on Dread before logging in. Click any address to open in Tor.
- 01 blackops5l63qnwnmlnsfvtlu66md3x3vp3fdtpna42eq7ozujr67hid.onion
- 02 blackops6kignp3eddmvqcfkjzf6qr6haxbmkypc2xtqlnhuu4ak4dqd.onion
- 03 blackops27m32abqvbhnyswgazqawxqbznbzkkkv5sjo7gve2ndpsdad.onion
BlackOps opened in 2024 and made one call that sets it apart right away: Monero only. There is no Bitcoin option and no swap running in the background. You fund with XMR and you spend XMR. For people who came to Tor for the privacy and not for the novelty, that is exactly the point. The coin does not carry a public history, so the wallet does not leak one.
The interface is English and looks like a normal market. Categories down the side, search at the top, vendor pages with the deal count and dispute number above the fold. Nothing to relearn if you have used another market before. Sign-up is the usual routine: a username, a PGP key, a captcha, and a withdrawal PIN kept separate from the login password.
Availability is handled the sane way. Several v3 onions run at the same time, so when one gets flooded you paste another into Tor Browser and carry on. Same account, same balance, same basket on all of them. The current set is on the BlackOps answer page in this hub, and rotations go out as PGP-signed posts on the operator Dread account. An address nobody signed is a phishing attempt until proven otherwise.
The login prints the real onion inside the anti-phishing image and again in the page header, so you can match it against your address bar before you type anything. A clone cannot get both right without the site key. Escrow holds your money until you confirm the order arrived, disputes are picked up while the coins are still held, and new vendors run escrow-only until they earn the right to finalize early.
What is the current BlackOps Market onion address?
BlackOps Market publishes several v3 hidden-service endpoints. They all resolve to the same back-end and any of them is the right one to use. The operator keeps more than one running at a time so that pressure on a single onion does not take the site off the network.
- 01 blackops5l63qnwnmlnsfvtlu66md3x3vp3fdtpna42eq7ozujr67hid.onion
- 02 blackops6kignp3eddmvqcfkjzf6qr6haxbmkypc2xtqlnhuu4ak4dqd.onion
- 03 blackops27m32abqvbhnyswgazqawxqbznbzkkkv5sjo7gve2ndpsdad.onion
Each of those is a 56-character v3 fingerprint. Before you type a password, check the full string against the operator PGP-signed announcement on Dread. The first characters are a chosen vanity prefix, and phishers generate strings that match the prefix and randomise the rest, so a matching prefix is not a match.
Why more than one onion?
A single hidden service is cheap to flood. Publishing several lets traffic move between them with no change on your side. If one address starts acting up, paste another from the list above into Tor Browser and keep going, same account and same balance.
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Which cryptocurrencies does BlackOps Market accept?
BlackOps settles in one coin, Monero.
XMR
Why Monero only
Most markets take BTC and XMR and let you pick. BlackOps drops Bitcoin on purpose. Bitcoin sits on a public ledger and forensic firms trace exchange withdrawals to darknet spends all day. Monero hides the amount, the sender and the receiver at the protocol level, so there is no trail to follow. Running one private coin instead of one private and one public one is a deliberate stance, not a missing feature.
Deposit flow
Deposit addresses are made fresh for every order and never reused. Send from a wallet you control, not straight from an exchange that checked your ID. After the required confirmations, which for Monero works out to around twenty minutes, the balance credits. Withdrawals use the same fresh-address pattern.
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How does BlackOps Market protect against phishing?
Three layers, in the order they help: the login captcha, the page banner, and the operator signed announcements on Dread.
Fingerprint in the captcha
The login captcha draws the real v3 onion fingerprint into the image itself, in a font that survives compression and a human can still read. A clone that proxies the real captcha shows the real fingerprint, which will not match its own address bar. A clone that draws its own captcha cannot put a matching fingerprint in it without the private key.
Page banner
The canonical onion is reprinted in the header on every page. Compare it letter for letter against your address bar before you log in. The string is 56 characters, so do not stop at the first eight.
Signed announcements
When the onion set changes, the operator posts a PGP-signed message on Dread. Import the public key once and you can check every announcement after that. An address that turns up on Telegram or Reddit with no signature is a phishing attempt until proven otherwise.