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The rebuild approach after losing the password

I forgot the password. It is not in my manager. This is what I did next, and what I did not.

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The three addresses

Nexus Market publishes these three onion addresses. Present as supplied, in no order, with no ranking. This site does not probe them and shows no uptime figure.

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nexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onion
nexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onion

What kind of rebuild this is

This is a rebuild of one account, not of the visit. Reaching the market is unchanged. The three onion addresses at the top of this article are the same three the market publishes, and I can open the front page any time. What I cannot do is sign in.

The distinction matters because it tells me which parts of my rebuild are on this site and which are on the market. Reaching the market is on this site. Recovering the account is on the market, if it is anywhere.

What I do first

I open the market from this site the way I always do. Copy one of the three addresses, paste in Tor Browser, let the captcha finish. This is the visit I would have made anyway. It does not depend on the password.

On the front page I look for what the market offers for a forgotten password. If it offers anything at all, that is what I will use. If it does not, that is the answer, and I have to live with it.

I do not create a new account on the assumption that the old one is gone. Two accounts in one visit is two decisions in one visit, and I try to keep the number to one.

What most markets offer, in general terms

Some markets have no password recovery at all. The password is the password and if it is gone the account is gone. Others have a recovery based on a phrase, an email, a mnemonic, or a PGP key. Which of these Nexus offers today is a fact I check on the front page, not on this site, because that fact belongs to the market.

If the market offers a recovery I still know the input to, I use it. If it offers a recovery that requires an input I do not have, I do not have the account back.

This is not a happy answer. It is an honest one.

What I do not do

I do not send my password guesses to the market at speed. Trying five variations quickly is a shape the market notices. If I have three guesses, I make three, and I do not add a fourth in the same session.

I do not send a message from a fresh account claiming to be the owner of the old account and asking for it back. That is not how any market works and it will not work here.

I do not ask on a forum for advice about how to recover the account. Public asks are how the account gets stolen by the next person to answer.

What I do after the recovery works or fails

If the recovery works, I change the password to something new and I put it in my manager immediately. Then I stop, close the browser, and think about why the password was lost. If the manager did not have it, the manager is where I put the fix.

If the recovery does not work, I close the browser without doing anything else. Creating a new account is a separate visit and it deserves its own thinking. I do not want the failed recovery and the fresh account to be in the same afternoon.

What I write down after either outcome

  • The date of the recovery attempt is not something I write down here or anywhere. It is not information I need.
  • What did work and what did not, as words. That belongs on paper.
  • Whether the manager has the new password. Yes or no, one line.
  • Whether the recovery revealed anything about how the market handles this. That belongs in my head for the next visit.

The address, unchanged

The three onion addresses at the top of this article are the same three they were before I lost the password. The rebuild of the account does not change the addresses. The addresses are shared by everybody who visits the market and I share them too.

Every version of this rebuild starts from the same three addresses on this site. That much stays constant across every kind of loss on my end.

The soft ending

A forgotten password to a market account may not be a recoverable state. That is the shape of the world, and it is worth accepting as the shape rather than trying to bend it. If the account is gone, it is gone.

The rebuild approach after a lost password is short, either way. It ends in one of two places, and both endings are acceptable. Neither is worth stretching the visit past its honest length.

The opposite approach

The cautious approach that never signs in, the visit that never signs in at all

What this article is not. This is not a claim that the market has a password reset. Any recovery lives with the market, not with this site.

Read another in this approach

The rebuild approach after losing the phoneA lost phone takes bookmarks, notes and copies with it. What remains is what I can rebuild from memory and from this site. The rebuild approach after losing every noteWhen my notes about the market are gone, the recovery is not technical. It is a walk back through what I actually remembered. The rebuild approach when one mirror has gone quietOne mirror going quiet is not the market being down. It is a rebuild of my habit, from one preferred address to two others.
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