diff --git a/nym-api/src/ephemera/mod.rs b/nym-api/src/ephemera/mod.rs
index 6ad6f98cb9..e6075e79d5 100644
--- a/nym-api/src/ephemera/mod.rs
+++ b/nym-api/src/ephemera/mod.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 // Copyright 2023 - Nym Technologies SA <contact@nymtech.net>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
 
+// while those files are completely unused now, I'm going to leave them here for future reference once we decide to revive the project to have a starting point
+// but whoever picks it up: you are forbidden from trying to use actix
+
 extern crate core;
 
 use clap::Parser;