diff --git a/clients/nym-client/src/commands/run.rs b/clients/nym-client/src/commands/run.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 932da4a190..0000000000
--- a/clients/nym-client/src/commands/run.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-use crate::banner;
-//use crate::clients::NymClient;
-//use crate::persistence::pemstore;
-use clap::ArgMatches;
-
-pub fn execute(_matches: &ArgMatches) {
-    println!("{}", banner());
-    panic!("For time being this command is deprecated! Please use 'websocket' instead");
-    //
-    //    let is_local = matches.is_present("local");
-    //    let id = matches.value_of("id").unwrap().to_string();
-    //    println!("Starting client...");
-    //
-    //    let keypair = pemstore::read_keypair_from_disk(id);
-    //    let client = NymClient::new(keypair.public_bytes(), is_local);
-    //    client.start("127.0.0.1:9000".parse().unwrap()).unwrap();
-}
diff --git a/clients/nym-client/src/main.rs b/clients/nym-client/src/main.rs
index ad038e45b5..34b1b63b8a 100644
--- a/clients/nym-client/src/main.rs
+++ b/clients/nym-client/src/main.rs
@@ -30,22 +30,6 @@ fn main() {
                     .takes_value(true)
                 )
         )
-        .subcommand(
-            SubCommand::with_name("run")
-                .about("Run a persistent Nym client process")
-                .arg(Arg::with_name("id")
-                    .long("id")
-                    .help("Id of the nym-mixnet-client we want to run.")
-                    .takes_value(true)
-                    .required(true)
-                )
-                .arg(
-                    Arg::with_name("directory")
-                        .long("directory")
-                        .help("Address of the directory server the client is getting topology from")
-                        .takes_value(true),
-                )
-        )
         .subcommand(
             SubCommand::with_name("tcpsocket")
                 .about("Run Nym client that listens for bytes on a TCP socket")
@@ -109,7 +93,6 @@ pub mod built_info {
 fn execute(matches: ArgMatches) -> Result<(), String> {
     match matches.subcommand() {
         ("init", Some(m)) => Ok(commands::init::execute(m)),
-        ("run", Some(m)) => Ok(commands::run::execute(m)),
         ("tcpsocket", Some(m)) => Ok(commands::tcpsocket::execute(m)),
         ("websocket", Some(m)) => Ok(commands::websocket::execute(m)),
         _ => Err(usage()),