
If the main address is busy, paste any of these into Tor Browser and keep going. Every mirror leads to the same shop.
Mars keeps more onion addresses live at any given moment than any other shop on this list. When the active address gets attacked, you just paste another one from the announcement and keep going. For people who lost orders because a shop went dark for two days during a flood, this is the practical reason to use Mars.
The login is a six character text captcha with decoy form fields whose names change every page load. A script that targets the form by field name fails because the name moved since the script last looked.
Three coins, Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero. Monero is the one to use when you care about privacy. Litecoin is the option when an order is small and Bitcoin fees would be silly. Bitcoin is there because some sellers still ask for it.