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How to get to a Nexus onion address on a Mac, the Gatekeeper prompts you will meet, and which macOS conveniences work against you here.

3 verified addresses published // 8 access routes // 6 setup steps // no accounts, no forms, nothing collected

Nexus Market onion addresses

All three reach the same market with the same account, balance and orders behind each. Copy one rather than typing it, then confirm it on the login screen before you sign in.

[01]nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onion

[02]nexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onion

[03]nexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onion

Read this before signing in Open these in Tor Browser only. When the login screen loads, compare the onion printed on the page against your browser address bar, reading from the end backwards. A copied page reproduces the design perfectly and cannot sit at the real address. If they differ, close the tab.

A Mac gets you to the same place as any other desktop with slightly less friction and slightly more cloud. The friction is fine. The cloud is the part to think about.

The short version

Download the macOS build from the Tor Project site.
Verify the signature before opening it.
Drag it to Applications and open it the first time from the right click menu, which gives you the option to allow it.
Set the security level to Safest.
Paste an address from this site and confirm it on the login screen.

The Gatekeeper prompt is normal

On first launch macOS may say it cannot verify the developer. That is a statement about Apple notarisation and not about whether the download is genuine. Your own signature check answers that question properly and does not depend on Apple at all. Do the signature check, then allow the app.

The conveniences to switch off

Desktop and Documents syncing to iCloud, which will happily copy anything you save into a folder you did not choose.
Handoff and universal clipboard, which push what you copy to other devices. Pasting an onion address on one machine and having it appear on a phone is not what you want.
Spotlight indexing for the folder you keep downloads in.

Disk encryption

Turn it on if it is not already. On a laptop that leaves the house this is the single highest value setting on the machine, and it costs nothing in daily use.

What a Mac does not give you

Amnesia. Like Windows, it remembers. Recent items, quick look thumbnails and the unified log all persist. If the goal is for the machine to know nothing afterwards, a live system is the tool for that, not a well configured Mac.