Payments on AWazon

The market wallet holds coins for orders: you deposit, you pay sellers from the wallet, sellers' coins release to their wallets after orders close, and you withdraw what you do not spend. The supported coins are the ones listed in the wallet, with bitcoin first. You do not need a coin account anywhere else to use the market; the wallet inside the .onion address is enough for the market's purposes, and it is the wrong place to keep more than you plan to move.

Each deposit gets its own address from the market. Send coins to that address, on the network the wallet says to, and the deposit appears once the network confirms it. Two failure modes are worth knowing in advance: sending on the wrong network, which loses the coins to the void, and sending to an old deposit address after the amount was already paid, which is how double-spend confusion starts. One address, one amount, the network the screen says.

You set a destination address and an amount, the fee is shown before you confirm, and the withdrawal goes out. The time it takes is mostly network time, not the market holding onto anything: when the network is crowded, transactions queue, and a withdrawal can sit in that queue for hours. When it is not crowded it is usually a matter of a few confirmations. No one can promise a clock time, and anyone who does is guessing in front of you.

The fee is what the market charges for moving the coins out, and it is on the screen before you press confirm. That number is the number.

Keep in the market wallet what you plan to spend, plus a little. Keep the rest in a wallet you control, offline if the amounts make it worth the effort. A market wallet is a spending account, like a card loaded for a trip: convenient, fast, and not where you keep the savings. This is the one rule on this page that is not about how the market works but about how accounts die, and it is the rule worth keeping. More on keeping the account itself safe.