A waiting-room page before the login that holds every visitor briefly so bots cannot hammer the captcha behind it. A flood raises its wait time.
Availability
The share of checks over a window in which a node resolved and answered. Shown per node as an uptime percentage.
Descriptor
The information a Tor hidden service publishes so clients can reach it. After a refresh, descriptors take time to propagate, which can briefly slow resolution.
Escrow
Holding a payment in a 2 of 3 multisig contract until buyer and vendor agree the order is done, or a moderator settles a dispute.
Finalise-early (FE)
Confirming receipt before a package arrives. It releases escrow to the vendor and removes the dispute path. Locked on Osiris until a vendor has earned it.
Latency
How long a node takes to clear the queue and render the login on a healthy circuit. Shown per node in milliseconds.
Mirror node
A distinct onion address resolving to the same market. Osiris runs three so a problem with one does not take the market down.
Onion address
A fifty-six character v3 Tor address ending in .onion. Copy it, never type it, and verify it against the login captcha.
PGP-signed pool
The set of addresses the market publishes with a PGP signature. Verifying the signature proves an address came from the market and not an impersonator.
Rotation
Adding or retiring a node in the pool, announced with a signature. A freshly rotated node may resolve slowly until its descriptors propagate.
Status log
The explorer feed of dated events that affected the pool: floods, descriptor lag, phishing advisories.
Uptime
See availability. Reported per node as a percentage over the observation window.
