What sits in this section
Most people arrive after a mars market link and find that the address was the easy part. The payment side is where the real questions are, and nine numbers cover it. Four belong to Monero and are written into code that every node runs. One belongs to Bitcoin habit rather than to any rule. The rest describe the shape of escrow and the arithmetic of an amount.
The awkward part goes first. This site has no account with the market. It has never made a payment through it, never opened an order and never held escrow. So the coin level numbers here come from public protocol rules that anybody can read, and the market level numbers are common shapes across markets of this kind rather than published policy. Where a page describes a shape instead of a rule, it says so in its opening lines.
The register below is sorted smallest first. The chip on the right repeats the same split the rest of the site uses, and the counted page explains where that line was drawn and why two of these nine sit on the other side of it.
What these nine can and cannot tell you
They can tell you why waiting happens. Coin that is visible but not spendable is the ten block lock doing its job, and the twenty minutes people complain about is that lock multiplied by the two minute block. Once both figures are in your head the wait stops looking like somebody stalling you.
They can tell you where care belongs. Because nothing reverses, checking happens before you press send and never after. That one fact reorganises everything else in the section, and it is the reason the cheap checks on this site are worth their few seconds.
They can also tell you which complaints are aimed at the wrong target. A fee that seems too low, a balance that reads as zero, a deposit that credits later than a friend said it would. All three have ordinary explanations that have nothing to do with anybody being treated badly.
What they cannot tell you is what this market runs. Whether escrow here is real two of three multisignature or a pooled wallet with a good label is not visible from outside. Nobody has said, nothing has been tested, and the page on that number repeats the point in plainer words.
| Level | Where the number comes from | How firm it is |
|---|---|---|
| Coin level | Monero consensus rules and the reference wallet | Fixed. Anybody running a node gets the same answer |
| Payment level | Arithmetic over the coin rules | Fixed, once the inputs are agreed |
| Market level | Shapes common to markets of this kind | Not published policy. A description, not a promise |
Two of the nine are marked judged. The fee is judged because it moves with how busy the chain is and with a setting in the sending wallet. Six confirmations is judged because it was never a rule to begin with and became one by repetition.
Questions people ask
Do any of these numbers come from the market?
No. Nothing on this site was confirmed by the market and this site has no contact with it. The coin figures come from public protocol rules and the escrow shape is a common one rather than a published policy.
Why is there no coin price anywhere in this section?
Because a price is a moving figure that would be wrong within a day of being written. The fee page gives an order of magnitude instead and names what moves it.
Which number here surprises people most?
Twelve decimal places. People see a truncated display, read a very small amount as zero, and go looking for a problem that does not exist.