nexusmarkettorReference procedures for using Nexus Market over Tor
Archive > Payment and settlement > NM-007
Nexus accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero. The market is indifferent between them. The records they produce are not equivalent, and that difference is the whole content of this document.
| Coin | Recorded publicly | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | Amount, sending address, receiving address | Permanent and readable by anyone |
| Litecoin | Amount, sending address, receiving address | Permanent and readable by anyone |
| Monero | Sender, receiver and amount concealed by default | No public record produced |
Most decisions around a marketplace are reversible or decay. A weak password is changed, a poor vendor is avoided next time, a slow address is swapped. A public ledger entry cannot be edited, withdrawn or aged out, and its usefulness to somebody examining it later may increase as surrounding data accumulates rather than decrease.
That asymmetry is the argument. Every other control in this archive limits damage during use. Settlement choice determines what remains readable years afterwards.
Use Monero for anything intended to stay private, which on a hidden service is most of it. Bitcoin and Litecoin are reasonable where you already hold the coin and accept that the payment is publicly recorded. What is not reasonable is selecting whichever option happens to be preselected without deciding.
Coin selection does not affect escrow, dispute handling or verification. It is orthogonal to every other document here, which is why it is stated separately rather than folded into the deposit procedure.
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