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choose: reframe as system chooser + name the paid product Sirius.x

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The chooser page was two audience-labelled panels ("For people" / "For
developers"). Rebuild as two acts of two pills each, describing the systems
rather than the reader: the web you browse (stay / step outside), the web you
build on (rent / own). The paid name+hosting service gains a name here —
Sirius.x — and it appears on the developer red pill and its destination.

The privacy claim tightens across all three pages to the version that is
actually true: anonymous by default, not by exception.

  - The default path binds a domain to a verified legal identity via WHOIS/RDAP,
    ICANN accreditation, and the card. Privacy-forward registrars (Njalla,
    MyNymBox) exist and behave well; paired with Tor/VPN they give genuine
    real-world privacy. But they hold the identity ON YOUR BEHALF and can be
    compelled to produce it. A bank card undoes any of it.
  - Sirius.x has no card support and no account, so there is nothing to compel
    out of a provider that never held it.
  - Honestly noted on the red side that no stack removes your IP — the network
    layer (Tor/VPN) is a separate question. Two independent questions, two
    independent answers.

Also: /register.html#hosting was a dead anchor; fix in a follow-up commit.
Third-party sessions are concurrently editing TheseusNavigator/; not touched here.
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@ -71,16 +71,21 @@ main h1{font-size:clamp(1.9rem,4.4vw,2.7rem);font-weight:600;text-align:center;
<main>
<div class="capsule" aria-hidden="true"></div>
<h1>There is no one to ask.</h1>
<p class="lede">That is the whole difference. Not better software — a missing layer.
The part of the internet that grants permission, and can therefore withdraw it,
is simply absent here. Everything below follows from that one hole.</p>
<h1>Anonymous by default. Not by exception.</h1>
<p class="lede">Two missing layers, and everything follows from them. The part that
grants permission — and can therefore withdraw it — is absent. So is the part that
could ever be asked who you are, because it never collected the answer. Not held on
your behalf. Not held at all.</p>
<div class="rows">
<div class="row"><span class="was">A domain leased from a registrar</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="now">A <b>certificate you hold</b>, on a public ledger. Your key, your name.</span></div>
<div class="row"><span class="was">A registrar that logs who bought the name</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="now">A <b>certificate you hold</b>, on a public ledger. Your key, your name — <b>nobody learns you asked for it</b>.</span></div>
<div class="row"><span class="was">A card or bank in the middle of every payment</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="now">Pay <b>direct in crypto</b>. No processor, no chargeback, and nobody to refuse it on your behalf.</span></div>
<div class="row"><span class="was">An account that can be suspended</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="now">No account at all. <b>Nothing was granted, so nothing can be revoked.</b></span></div>
<div class="row"><span class="was">A browser and pages that report home</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="now">Theseus resolves names <b>straight from the chain</b> — no lookup service in the middle logging what you typed.</span></div>
<div class="row"><span class="was">A host with an acceptable-use policy</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="now">Your own server, a paid swarm of strangers, or <b>the chain itself</b>.</span></div>
<div class="row"><span class="was">A certificate authority vouching for you</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
@ -93,9 +98,12 @@ main h1{font-size:clamp(1.9rem,4.4vw,2.7rem);font-weight:600;text-align:center;
<b>The honest part.</b> Nobody being in charge cuts both ways. There is no support desk,
no password reset and no undo — lose your recovery phrase and the name is gone, with
nobody able to help. Nothing here is moderated, so you will find things you would rather
not. And this is an <b>alpha on a test network</b>: the coins are free and worth nothing,
which is the honest place to try it before real money is involved. If that trade sounds
bad, the other pill is a legitimate choice and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
not. And there is one layer this stack does not remove for you: your <b>IP address</b>.
A server still sees where a request came from, and so does whoever your traffic passes
through. If that matters, add Tor or a paid VPN — the two questions (who you are on the
account, where you are on the network) are independent, and Sirius.x only answers the
first. This is an <b>alpha on a test network</b>: the coins are free and worth nothing,
which is the honest place to try it before real money is involved.
</div>
<div class="next">

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.capsule-card.red ul.points li::before{background:var(--red)}
ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
.brand{text-align:center;color:var(--acid);font-size:12.5px;letter-spacing:.06em;
margin:-.7rem 0 1.1rem;font-weight:600}
.brand span{color:var(--mut);font-weight:400}
.spacer{flex:1}
.go{display:block;text-align:center;padding:12px 18px;border-radius:10px;
font-weight:600;font-size:14px;border:1px solid transparent}
@ -100,11 +103,16 @@ ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
<p class="eyebrow">Silent Mode</p>
<h1>Two internets. <span class="g">Twice over.</span></h1>
<p class="intro">The web you use every day is owned — companies decide which names exist,
which pages load, and whose voice carries. There is a second web running on the same
wires, with no registrar and no gatekeeper. Whether you want to <em>use</em> it or
<em>build</em> on it, it starts the same way: something you install, and a name that is
actually yours.</p>
<p class="intro">The web you use every day is owned. Companies decide which names exist,
which pages load, and whose voice carries. Registrars record who bought what. Card
networks and banks sit in the middle of every payment. The browser you are reading this
in reports home, and so does most of what it loads. There are privacy-forward providers
that will hold your identity <em>on your behalf</em> — but they still hold it, and a
court order still reaches them. Sirius.x removes the surface instead: names you hold by
key, pages nobody can pull, payment with no card and no bank, and a browser with nobody
to report to. <b>Anonymous by default, not by exception.</b> Whether you want to
<em>use</em> it or <em>build</em> on it, it starts the same way: something you install,
and a name that is actually yours.</p>
<!-- ════ ACT I — the web you browse ════════════════════════════════ -->
<section class="act" aria-labelledby="act1">
@ -123,10 +131,11 @@ ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
<ul class="points">
<li><b>Your account is a permission.</b> It exists while the platform allows it,
under terms they rewrite when they like.</li>
<li><b>You are measured everywhere you go.</b> The browser reports home, the pages
report home, and the profile follows you between them. Attention is the business
model, so being watched is not a bug — it <em>is</em> the system.</li>
<li><b>What you publish stays up until it does not.</b> Moderation is theirs,
appeals go to them, and the reasons need not be given.</li>
<li><b>You are the measured product.</b> Attention is the business model, so
being watched is not a bug in the system — it <em>is</em> the system.</li>
<li><b>The reach you built is not portable.</b> Leave, and the audience stays
behind.</li>
</ul>
@ -141,8 +150,11 @@ ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
<ul class="points">
<li><b>No account, anywhere.</b> No email, no sign-up, no password to reset.
Nothing to suspend, because nothing was granted.</li>
<li><b>A browser with nobody to report to.</b> Theseus resolves names straight
from the chain — no lookup service in the middle logging what you typed.</li>
<li><b>A name that is yours by key, not by permission.</b> Held on a public
ledger; no registrar stands between you and it.</li>
ledger; no registrar stands between you and it, and none of them learns your
name to give you one.</li>
<li><b>Pages nobody can pull.</b> On your own server, spread across strangers
who are paid to keep it, or inside a transaction the whole network stores.</li>
<li><b>Nobody to petition, because nobody is in charge.</b> That cuts both ways,
@ -161,7 +173,7 @@ ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
<span class="act-num">Second choice</span>
<h2 id="act2">The web you build on</h2>
<p>If you ship things, the question repeats one layer down — and this time the
gatekeepers have invoices.</p>
gatekeepers have invoices, and a record of who paid them.</p>
</div>
<div class="capsules">
@ -171,12 +183,19 @@ ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
<p class="tag">The blue one</p>
<h3>Rent it, like everyone.</h3>
<ul class="points">
<li><b>Anonymous only by exception.</b> The default path binds the name to your
legal identity — WHOIS/RDAP holds the registrant data, ICANN requires it be
accurate, and the card ties it all together. Privacy providers like Njalla take
Monero and behave well — pair them with Tor or a VPN and the real-world privacy
is genuinely good. Pay with a bank card, and none of it applies. Either way, the
provider still <em>holds</em> what they were told and can be compelled to produce
it.</li>
<li><b>A domain is a lease, not a title.</b> You rent it yearly at whatever the
registrar charges next time, and forgetting once can lose it.</li>
<li><b>Suspension is a supported feature.</b> Registrars act on court orders, UDRP
rulings and their own policy — by design, not by failure.</li>
<li><b>Every layer keeps a veto.</b> The host has terms of service. The CDN has an
acceptable-use policy. The certificate authority can revoke.</li>
<li><b>Every layer keeps a veto, and a bank sits under all of them.</b> Host,
CDN, certificate authority, payment processor. Any one can decline.</li>
<li><b>It is genuinely good infrastructure.</b> Fast, cheap, supported, and
someone answers the phone. That is the deal you are making.</li>
</ul>
@ -188,18 +207,25 @@ ul.points b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}
<div class="capsule red" aria-hidden="true"></div>
<p class="tag">The red one</p>
<h3>Own the name outright.</h3>
<p class="brand">Sirius<span>.x</span> — names and hosting, paid in crypto</p>
<ul class="points">
<li><b>Anonymous by default, not by exception.</b> No account, no email, no card,
no bank — because the stack does not support them. Nothing to compel out of a
provider that never held it.</li>
<li><b>Payment is peer to peer.</b> You pay in crypto, direct to the seller, with
no processor deciding whether you may and no bank keeping a record of the
purchase. Add Tor or a VPN to cover the network layer, which nothing else can
do for you — no stack removes your IP.</li>
<li><b>The name is a certificate you hold.</b> A CashToken on Bitcoin Cash — your
key controls it, and there is no company in the middle to ask.</li>
<li><b>Host it however you like.</b> Your own server, the Sia storage network, or
on-chain for something small. Repoint it whenever, for free.</li>
<li><b>No API key and no account.</b> Names are CashTokens, records are OP_RETURN,
and one beacon address enumerates the whole registry. No sidechain, no fork.</li>
<li><b>Run every part of it yourself.</b> A node plus a small BNS-only indexer
fits a one-core VPS. Any TLD works — the protocol has no allowlist.</li>
<li><b>The whole stack is yours to run.</b> Browser, resolver, indexer, registry —
a node plus a small BNS-only indexer fits a one-core VPS. Any TLD works; the
protocol has no allowlist.</li>
</ul>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<span class="go">Find a name →</span>
<span class="go">Find a name on Sirius.x →</span>
</a>
</div>

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<h1>Rent it, like everyone.</h1>
<p class="lede">This is the stack almost every site on the internet is built on. It is
mature, it is inexpensive, and it is very good at its job. It is also five separate
companies, each of whom can independently decide your project is over.</p>
companies, each of whom can independently decide your project is over — and every one
of them keeps a record that reaches back to you.</p>
<div class="fair" style="border-left-color:#7fa3f2;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:2.4rem">
<b>The identity bind, and its limits.</b> The default path binds a domain to a verified
legal identity: ICANN's registrar accreditation agreement obliges registrars to hold
accurate registrant data, WHOIS/RDAP publishes some of it, and the card or bank transfer
ties the record together. Privacy-forward registrars like Njalla or MyNymBox exist —
they take Monero, do not require a legal name, and behave well. If you also connect over
Tor or a paid VPN and do not volunteer personal details, the real-world privacy you get
from them is genuinely good.<br><br>
But <b>the mechanism is different</b>. Those providers hold an identity, or a payment,
or a network address <em>on your behalf</em>, and can be compelled to produce what they
have. Anyone who paid with a bank card, or opened an account with an email that reaches
back to them, has not really used the privacy path at all — they have used a privacy
<em>brand</em> attached to the ordinary rails. The conventional stack is
<b>anonymous only by exception</b>, and the exception is compellable. Sirius.x is
anonymous <b>by default</b> — the identity, the payment record, and the account were
never collected, because the stack cannot collect them.
</div>
<h2>Who holds what</h2>
<div class="layers">
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</div>
<div class="door">
<p>The other option is not a replacement for all of that. It replaces exactly one
layer — the one that decides whether the name is still yours — and leaves the rest of
your choices open. Same day, few cents, no account.</p>
<p><b>Sirius.x</b> removes two of these surfaces — the one that decides whether the name
is still yours, and the one that could ever be asked what you paid or who you are.
Not held on your behalf; not held at all. The rest of your choices stay open. Same
day, few cents, no account, no card.</p>
<a class="btn" href="/register.html">See what a name costs there →</a>
</div>