Torzon Decisions Every choice this involves, with what each option costs you

Torzon addresses

Nine published addresses for one market. Copy rather than retype. Which one to use is a decision with a page of its own.

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atmqbitgx7g5c4gdc4t23erlpvub7c3agbmky6on6vxcfs26fuj3usqd.onion
dgkozv5myc3lfpedjl2khhk6icok2xm5wmc5vg42xvbyh4fs345mopyd.onion
evwigej45n3nywbn3aqdun4o6cgjyfgxf2ts7lm6no3uotxanpeuosad.onion
fr6bvsrcx7ajxou7kyme5otctzdmpllum6iqootcjnwmzepuuams2tad.onion
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jcyjjcu4oocqkgxyq4d6mmbuuha5db7iz3zifhf2cm6n6m5mvogxwqyd.onion
ncmebasolcj2pmw5oy2bco4r65jbcqznrujtxcalz6e2b2jmhjlf44ad.onion
otw35cxf2rssl23tsvtqjwj32u62q4becl2jmgvekuemptxli7gt5lyd.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and checking a signature is the only thing that settles it.

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One key or several

The same shape as reusing a name, with the difference that a key makes the link provable rather than merely likely.

A fresh key per identity

What you gain
No cryptographic link between this and anything else. Nothing to correlate, now or later.
What you give up
You cannot prove continuity, which is a real loss for a vendor and close to irrelevant for a buyer.
Suits
Every buyer.

One key everywhere

What you gain
Provable continuity across platforms, which lets an established trader carry standing with them.
What you give up
A permanent, verifiable statement that the accounts are one person. It cannot be retracted, and it applies retroactively.
Suits
Vendors with an established name and a deliberate reason, who have accepted the trade.

One key, kept quiet

What you gain
The feeling of continuity without publishing it.
What you give up
The link exists whether or not you advertise it. Anybody holding both public keys can compare them at any point.
Suits
Nobody. This is the option that sounds cautious and is not.

Why the link is different from a name

A shared handle is evidence. A shared key is proof, and it is proof anybody can check without your involvement, forever, including on platforms that no longer exist but whose data does. That difference is the whole reason this gets a separate page.

What a key is actually for here

Two things, and only one of them involves your own key. Checking the market signature, which uses their key and not yours. And signing or encrypting messages, which uses yours. The first is the important one and it does not require you to have a key at all.

For most readersIf you are a buyer who never signs anything, the decision on this page barely arises. What matters far more is pinning the market fingerprint, which is about their key and is the check everything else rests on.

What tips it

Whether you need to prove you are the same person as somebody else. Buyers almost never do, which makes a fresh key free. Vendors sometimes do, and then the question becomes whether the standing being carried is worth a permanent link that cannot be withdrawn later if either identity is ever exposed.