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The starter pack: four reads to get you going

A short reading list, in order, for someone who has never placed an order. Work through these four pages and you are ready. They build on each other, so resist the urge to skip ahead.

Read them in order. Each builds on the one before, so skipping ahead just means looking up something the earlier page already covered. The whole pack takes well under an hour, and at the end you will understand access, funding, escrow and the day-to-day habits that keep buyers out of trouble. That is everything you need to place a first order on Anubis, Nexus or Osiris with confidence.

1. The walkthrough

Six steps, from a clean install to a funded order on Anubis, Nexus or Osiris. This is the one page worth reading end to end. It covers the Tor Browser, the security slider, bookmarking this directory, copying a mirror, creating an account and funding it. Everything else in the pack expands on a step from here.

2. Monero deposits

Funding the account. Wallet picks, the send itself, and the slips that cost first-timers. Worth a read before you send anything. This is also where the privacy reasoning lives: why Monero rather than Bitcoin, and why that choice matters more than almost anything else you do.

3. Escrow models

What the escrow actually does, including how Anubis and Nexus use 2-of-3 multisig and how Osiris reaches the same place by being walletless. Read it once and you will understand what protects your money between paying and receiving, and why the markets in this directory are built so no single party can run off with the pot.

4. Buyer habits

The habits experienced buyers keep. None are secret; adopt them on day one. Copy onion links rather than retyping, bookmark the directory, read the vendor profile, fund in Monero, and give the dispute desk its window. Small routines, large payoff.

After the pack

Once you have worked through the four, the short list page explains why we index only these three names, and the two reviews, the Anubis review and the Nexus review, help you choose where to open an account. The mirror pages for Anubis and Nexus explain the rotation if you are curious why there are three onions each.

Frequently asked

Do I have to read all four?
You can place an order after the walkthrough alone, but the other three are what keep you out of trouble. They are short. Read them.

In what order?
The order above. Each assumes the one before it.

What if I still have questions?
The FAQ answers the common ones in a sentence or two each.

That is the pack. Bookmark the directory, work the four pages, and you are operational. Anything left over is probably in the FAQ.