Nexus Market Payments: Bitcoin & Monero

Nexus Market takes two things and only two things: bitcoin and monero. No cards, no banks, no clearnet gateway sitting between your wallet and the order. Fiat does not make it through the Tor exit, and it is not supposed to. If a page tells you to pay with a card or a wallet app, you are looking at the wrong page, and the wrong page is where the money goes.

How a payment address is made

Every order gets its own wallet address, created for that order and only that order. One order, one address. The address is tied to the line item you actually bought, so a screenshot someone else paid from will not line up with your order. You cannot reuse a foreign address and expect the order to see the payment, because the order is watching a specific string of characters that was generated for you. Copy the address from your own order screen, not from a chat, not from a forum post, not from a "just in case" note.

Escrow: what actually happens

When you pay, the coins do not land in the seller's pocket. They sit in escrow, held by the market, until you confirm that you received what you ordered. Only after that confirmation does the seller get paid. If something is off, the dispute is handled inside the market, against the order and its record, not in a thread with a stranger. Without escrow the whole thing would be a bet you place and then hope on, and most of the dark web would be reserved for people who are comfortable losing. Escrow is the part that lets a normal person buy and sleep.

The money is yours until you say it is not. That single line is what the address-per-order and the escrow are protecting.

Monero for the ones who count privacy

Bitcoin works, and so does monero, and both follow the same order flow. The difference is what a blockchain can tell an observer. Bitcoin links a balance to an address in the open, so a careful reader can follow where the coins were and where they went. Monero does not make that link easy, so the same payment is harder to tie to you. If that matters to you, choose xmr. If it does not, bitcoin is fine. The order behaves the same way either way.

What to check before confirming

The amount matches what the order says, to the last decimal.
The address you are sending to is the one on your own order, not one pasted from anywhere else.
After you send, the transaction hash appears on the order. No hash on the order means the market has not seen the payment yet, so do not confirm.

If you are asked to send coins to an address that arrived in a private message from "support" and that is not on your order, stop. The order has its own address. Anything outside it is a reason to pause, not a reason to hurry. A payment should also be able to trace back to a real entrance: if the "order" lives on a page that is not one of the three Nexus Market addresses, the escrow behind it is not the market's escrow.

Pay the address on the order, watch the hash show up, confirm, done. It does not matter which of the three entrances you bought from, whether that was nexusb2l7njnf2i5dm3ushgrwayuicpofzcs4bkknpzfdwwbwbgqwtyd.onion or one of the others: the order, the address and the escrow work the same way.