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Which address to use

The most asked question here and one of the least consequential, which is worth knowing before spending effort on it.

Pick one and stay on it

What you gain
Simplicity. You learn what normal looks like on that address, which makes an abnormal day easier to notice.
What you give up
A single point of failure in your habits. If it is slow or unreachable you have nothing to compare against.
Suits
Most people. Pair it with keeping the others saved so switching is instant when you need it.

Rotate between them

What you gain
You never build a dependency on one address, and you notice quickly when one behaves differently from the rest.
What you give up
No baseline. Everything feels slightly unfamiliar, which makes the one genuinely wrong page harder to spot.
Suits
People who are already comfortable and check signatures without thinking about it.

Use whichever loads fastest

What you gain
The best experience on any given day, and it costs nothing to try two.
What you give up
Speed is weak evidence in the wrong direction. A copy of a page is faster than the real one, because it carries no load.
Suits
Nobody, as a primary rule. Fine as a tiebreak once you have already checked where you are.

What actually differs

Less than the number of addresses suggests. They reach the same market, so your account, balance and orders are identical through all of them. What varies is the path, and path problems are per address rather than per market.

PropertyVaries between addresses?
Your account and ordersNo. Same market behind all nine.
Whether it is reachable todayYes. Lookup failures and flooding hit individual addresses.
Speed on a given dayYes, and it changes hour to hour, so it is not a property of the address.
How widely it is publishedYes. Older addresses appear in more scraped lists and attract more junk traffic.
Whether it is genuineThis is not a property of the list at all. Only a signature answers it.
The version that mattersThe one wrong answer is picking an address from somewhere other than a published list, or from a list you saved a long time ago. That is a different decision and it is covered in bookmark or list.

What tips it

How often you use the market. Somebody who visits weekly benefits from a baseline, because familiarity with one address is the cheapest anomaly detector available. Somebody who visits twice a year has no baseline either way and should simply take whichever address is current and check it properly.

What should not tip it is a recommendation from anywhere. An address being described as the best, the fastest or the official one carries no information, because none of those are properties a third party can establish. Why nine exist covers the reasoning behind the set.