A reader-friendly Mars Market access guide

This guide walks a first-time reader from a blank machine to a placed order on Mars Market, in the order the steps actually happen. It is written calmly and on the assumption you have never opened the Tor Browser before. Each step lives on its own page; the contents further down link directly to them.

The guide is for buyers, not vendors. Reading it end to end takes roughly the time of a film, including waits for coin confirmations. You can stop after any step and resume later; nothing about the process relies on you sitting through it without breaks.

Verified Mars Market mirrors

Five verified onion addresses are kept here so a reader who already knows the workflow can copy a line and head straight to the storefront, without scrolling through the rest of the guide.

• mars24pas2vgwtr4drrsy7tlngevbvxyguejynnkeywibjzenet7knqd.onion copy
• marsautbk3di5cj75eh4dakjjrngddnjwqfdltbq2sy6cf7unzkd2bad.onion copy
• marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion copy
• marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion copy
• marsmtbwtxkohhpu34m4jkwcntian7n257wsex5tbkmsjdjrsz6me3yd.onion copy

Who the guide is for

The reader the guide imagines is someone who has heard of Tor in general terms, has heard of Mars Market specifically, and now wants a sensible walkthrough rather than a forum thread of contradictory advice. The guide assumes a desktop machine running Windows, macOS or a mainstream Linux distribution. A phone works for browsing but the first run is friendlier on a laptop, partly because of the on-screen keyboard friction during the registration step.

Contents of the guide

• Step oneInstall the Tor Browser
• Step twoGet a verified mirror
• Step threeOpen the storefront
• Step fourRegister an account
• Step fiveFund the wallet
• Step sixPlace a first order
• ExtraSafety tips
• ExtraFrequently asked questions

How to use the steps

The steps are linear. The order is the order in which a first-time buyer naturally encounters each one. The numbering is not decorative — installing the Tor Browser before copying a mirror, for example, means the mirror is never tempted into the wrong browser, which is the single most common stumble for new readers. Read each page once, then come back to do the step at your own pace, and only move to the next page when the current step is finished.

What the guide will not do for you

The guide is a walkthrough; it is not a back-channel and it does not log in for you. Every action that touches money, your account or a vendor message happens inside the Tor Browser, on the storefront itself, after the guide has handed you the right address. The pages here keep the path short and the moves obvious, but the buying still happens on the storefront and is yours to do. Read carefully, take your time, and treat the walkthrough as scaffolding rather than as a service.