Osiris Schedulehow often, not just how Everything this involves, sorted by how frequently you actually do it
Schedule › Every few weeks

Move the balance

the common loss

The most frequent loss in this whole subject has no attacker attached to it at all.

Osiris addresses

Three published addresses for the same market. Copy rather than retype.

osiriseultmx3so5ef6ayasy4kdyekbywr7pyggpmjazeogxoyaodsyd.onion
osirislivpetlbabbl3zzqhupurfkxxbzbheu3bkrshkaiwg2hcxbyqd.onion
osirisydmlx47esm6ylhzhtnjrucgnymi7beqoyzze5jn3opbr3zy4id.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and the check that settles it belongs to the every time list.

How often
Every few weeks, and ideally after every completed order.
How long
A few minutes plus ordinary confirmation time.
What it prevents
Losing funds to something entirely ordinary: a lost account, an outage, a platform ending, or your own attention lapsing.
If you skip it
Money accumulates somewhere you have stopped watching, held by a party you cannot identify.
How you notice you stopped
You do not know, without looking, what the balance currently is.

What a parked balance actually is

Money handed to a platform and not committed to anything. It is not in escrow, because escrow governs orders. It is not protected by the signing arrangement, because nothing has been contracted. Every protection described anywhere on this site attaches to an order, and a balance has no order attached.

What can happen to it

EventHow likelyEffect
Your account is lostFar more likely than the platform failingGone with the account
Your attention lapsesVery likely over monthsNothing, until one of the others happens
An extended outageOccasionalNot a loss, and a stretch where you cannot reach your own money
The platform endsUnpredictableGone. Every market that ended looked healthy first.
The likely oneThe first row is the one people underweight. Losing access to your own account is the common case, and a balance turns that from an annoyance into a permanent loss.

The fee argument, answered

It is the one real argument for leaving funds in place, so it deserves a direct answer. Each withdrawal pays a network fee measured in fractions of a cent. Leaving money there to avoid it buys convenience with an unbounded downside to save an amount too small to write down. That is not a close comparison.

The check before confirming

Compare the first and last several characters of the destination against your own wallet. The ends, not the middle, because the failure here is wholesale substitution by something on your machine rather than a resembling address. It takes three seconds and it is the only thing standing between a mistake and a payment nobody can recall.