ONETHICS ①

[ignotusnemo]

A practical code for crypto paranoids

I have watched blockchains drift toward the very thing they were meant to destroy.

History grows without end. Verification becomes heavier. People stop determining truth for themselves and borrow it from APIs, explorers, exchanges, foundations and data centers.

This is not decentralization. It is rented verification.

Parano1d changes the blockchain architecture, but architecture alone cannot keep a network decentralized. Users must behave like participants, not customers. ONETHICS is a simple code for doing that.

1. Verify for yourself

Do not use an explorer, exchange or API as your source of truth. Open the Parano1d GUI and use its Search page.

The GUI is not a thin wallet. It runs a full node on your computer, verifies blocks and Live State locally, relays network data and participates in the P2P mesh. While it is open, you are not borrowing somebody else's view of the network. You are verifying it yourself and helping other nodes communicate.

External explorers may be convenient, but convenience is not verification.

2. Keep the shared State compact

Every live UTXO occupies a State slot that every full node must carry.

When occupancy reaches at least 75% in 10 of 18 hard-finalized headers, the State domain expands. Every expansion also moves the block subsidy to the next lower tier, halving it until the permanent 1 NOID floor is reached.

This makes consolidation more than wallet housekeeping. If your wallet accumulates many small UTXOs, periodically combine them. The GUI can consolidate up to 64 UTXOs into one output, freeing the remaining slots. Consolidation pays ordinary transaction fees but no State-growth burn because it reduces Live State.

Pools should use sensible payout thresholds and users should consolidate accumulated small outputs. Keeping State compact reduces the burden carried by every node and allows the current subsidy tier to remain active for longer.

Consolidation cannot reverse an expansion that already happened. Do it before unnecessary State pressure becomes permanent.

3. Preserve your own proofs

Parano1d removes full block bodies after they leave the 18-block reorganization window. Permanent compact headers keep the transaction root, but the network is not your personal transaction archive.

A saved payment receipt contains the transaction summary and its Merkle path to the permanent header. It remains independently verifiable after the original block body has been removed.

Export important receipts or back up wallet.receipts. Receipts are not derived from your wallet key and cannot be recreated from it later.

Do not expect an explorer, exchange or foundation to preserve your evidence for you.

4. Back up your wallet key

Your wallet key is the only thing that controls your NOID. There is no password reset or recovery service. Keep a private offline backup before receiving funds or mining.

GUI:

Settings → EXPORT KEY → COPY KEY

Core:

parano1d --export-wallet-secret

For a custom data directory:

parano1d --data-dir /path/to/data --export-wallet-secret

You can also copy wallet.key directly:

Linux/macOS: ~/.parano1d/data/wallet.key
Windows:     %USERPROFILE%\.parano1d\data\wallet.key
Custom node: DATA_DIR/wallet.key

The exported secret is a 64-character hexadecimal value. Keep it private and offline. Never paste it into a website, issue report, chat or support message.

If you created your wallet from a photo, the photo is simply used to derive the same ordinary 256-bit wallet key. You have three ways to back up that same key: keep the exact original photo, export the 64-character hexadecimal secret, or copy wallet.key. You can and should keep more than one of these backups in separate private locations. For photo recovery, the decoded pixels must remain identical. A thumbnail, screenshot, edited image, cloud preview or messenger copy may produce a different key.

Do not keep the only backup on the same computer.

Don't be the next James Howells.

5. Verify claims, not marketing

The post-quantum transition is not a matter of replacing one signature algorithm.

You can build post-quantum signatures and other primitives, but they alone do not make an entire system post-quantum. Wallet authorization, State transitions, commitments, recursive verification and the complete path from genesis must be considered together.

Security targets and conjectures are not proofs. Marketing is not soundness.

Do not trust Parano1d because this document tells you to. Read the premises, inspect the source, reproduce the executable certificate and challenge the assumptions.

Parano1d removes historical debt from the architecture. It does not remove responsibility from its users.

Verify your own truth. Keep the shared State compact. Preserve your proofs.

The present proves the past. Verify the present yourself.