Torzon Market Glossary: Escrow, Mirrors, XMR

The vocabulary of reaching Torzon Market and staying reachable:

• Tor — The Onion Router: a privacy network that routes traffic through encrypted relays, hiding the user’s location and enabling .onion sites.
• Onion address — the long .onion string identifying a hidden service; controlled by whoever holds its private key.
• Torzon link — any current onion address serving a Torzon Market mirror.
• Mirror — a parallel copy of the market on a different onion address, used for redundancy.
• Rotator — the system that distributes fresh Torzon link mirrors as old ones are blocked.
• Dread — the dominant darknet forum, the main community channel around the market.
• Clearnet — the ordinary, non-Tor internet; everything about the Torzon darknet market stays off it by design.

The money vocabulary of Torzon Market:

• BTC (Bitcoin) — the first cryptocurrency; supported by the market’s wallet, transparent on a public ledger.
• XMR (Monero) — the privacy coin standard in the Torzon darknet niche; hides sender, recipient and amount.
• Internal balance — coins credited to the account after deposit confirmations, shown in BTC/XMR with EUR equivalents.
• Escrow — coins locked by the market during an order, released to the vendor on completion; the core buyer protection.
• Commission — the market’s percentage fee on released escrow.
• Withdrawal — moving balance off the market to an external wallet.

The protection vocabulary used around Torzon Market accounts:

• 2FA (two-factor authentication) — login requiring a second proof beyond the password; on this market, PGP-based.
• PGP — Pretty Good Privacy: encryption with public/private key pairs, used for login challenges and private messages.
• Public key — the shareable half of a PGP key pair, registered with the account.
• Private key — the secret half; anyone holding it can pass 2FA and read messages.
• Captcha — the login challenge blocking automated attempts; faithfully copied by phishing pages.
• Phishing — imitation pages harvesting credentials — the top threat in the Torzon darknet niche.

How trade on Torzon Market is organised:

• Vendor — a seller account with listings, ratings and order history.
• Listing — a single product page with price, shipping options and stock.
• FE (Finalize Early) — releasing escrow to the vendor before delivery; risky for buyers.
• Dispute — the escrow resolution process when buyer and vendor disagree.
• Exit scam — a market or vendor disappearing with escrowed funds.
• Mirror blockage — an individual onion address becoming unreachable; survivable via the rotator.

The vocabulary of verifying claims about the market:

• Primary source — contemporaneous evidence: dated screenshots, forum threads, archived link lists.
• Provenance — the documented origin and handling of a piece of evidence.
• Dated claim — a statement bound to its evidence date and scope.
• Metadata — embedded data in files; can expose locations and editing history.
• Cross-match — confirming one source against an independent second source.

These definitions are tuned to the Torzon darknet context, where general-purpose explanations often miss the point: an “escrow” here is not a legal service but the market’s own lock on coins, and a “Torzon link” is not a website URL but one rotating mirror of a hidden service.

Where a term connects to a larger topic, the corresponding article develops it fully: escrow mechanics on the FAQ and main pages, mirror verification in the ecosystem and verification articles, and 2FA setup in the security article.