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## A new swarm
-Its genesis node records the first users, with the swarm ID, in its first change:
-
-* those of `--bootstrap-users`, each with everything (`[]` and `["_continuum"]`);
-* unset: the users of its `--htpasswd` with `[]`, and those of them, or of the
- proxy's, in `--protocol-writers` with `["_continuum"]` too.
-
-A swarm nobody could manage doesn't start: with none of them with `["_continuum"]`,
-`--genesis` is refused, naming both options.
+A swarm gets a registry from its start if its genesis node is given its first users,
+`--bootstrap-users`: it records them, with the swarm ID, in its first change, each with
+everything (`[]` and `["_continuum"]`), and the other users of its `--htpasswd` with
+`[]`. Without it, the swarm has no registry, and is as swarms were before: users all
+alike (An existing swarm, below), until someone gives it one.
## At the HTTP API