Almost always a tired circuit or a passing flood. The dangerous part is the reaction, not the outage.
A page that hangs or times out feels like the market has gone. It almost never has. Two causes account for nearly everything, and neither of them is the market disappearing.
The path your traffic takes through Tor degrades sometimes. It affects only you, and it is fixed by requesting a new circuit for the site and reloading. If that changes nothing, close Tor Browser completely and start it again, which rebuilds everything from scratch.
This affects everybody trying the same address and it passes on its own, usually within minutes. The response is to open a different verified address, since the others are frequently answering normally while one is under load.
| What you see | Likely cause | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| One address slow, another fine | Load on that address | Use the other one |
| All BlackOps addresses slow, other onion sites fine | Heavier flood against the service | Wait a few minutes and retry |
| Every onion site slow for you | Your own circuit or connection | New circuit, then restart Tor Browser |
Downtime itself costs nothing but patience. What costs money is going to look for a new address while the usual one is quiet, because that is exactly when cloned pages are easiest to find and hardest to resist. Wait, or use another address from a source you already trusted before the outage started.
blackops5l63qnwnmlnsfvtlu66md3x3vp3fdtpna42eq7ozujr67hid.onionblackops6kignp3eddmvqcfkjzf6qr6haxbmkypc2xtqlnhuu4ak4dqd.onionblackops27m32abqvbhnyswgazqawxqbznbzkkkv5sjo7gve2ndpsdad.onionBefore you sign in. Open these in Tor Browser only, and compare the onion printed on the login screen against your address bar. If they do not match, close the tab.
Feather, Cake and the official GUI. All three route through Tor and all three hand you words that matter more than the software.
Two of three keys, held by three different parties. It is why a stranger ships to you first.
The deposit itself is dull. The routing before it is where the care goes.
A clone can copy the design perfectly. It cannot show you the real address while living somewhere else.