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authorChristian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>2017-02-10 15:47:01 +0100
committerChristian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>2017-02-10 16:53:52 +0100
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<img align="middle" alt="Taler logo" width="33%" src="{{ url('images/logo-2015-medium.png') }}" style="margin: 0px 0px -120px 0px;">
</div>
<div class="jumbotron">
- <h1>{{ _("Electronic payments for a liberal society!") }}</h1>
- <p>{{ _("Taler is a new electronic payment system under development
- at <a href=\"http://www.inria.fr/\">Inria</a>. This community Web site
- provides extensive documentation about the system, which we expect to
- make operational in 2017.") }}</p>
+ <h1>{{ _("Independent One-Click Payments!") }}</h1>
+
+ <p>{{ _("Taler is an electronic payment system under
+ development
+ at <a href=\"http://www.inria.fr/\">Inria</a>. This
+ community Web site provides extensive documentation
+ about the system, which we expect to make
+ operational in 2017.") }}</p>
+
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
- <h2>{{ _("Taxable") }}</h2>
+ <h2>{{ _("<b>T</b>axable") }}</h2>
+
<p>{{ _("Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that
- governments can learn their citizen's total income and thus collect
- sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the
- mainstream economy, and not the black market.") }}</p>
+ governments can learn their citizen's total income
+ and thus collect sales, value-added or income
+ taxes. Taler is a currency for the mainstream
+ economy, and not the black market.") }}</p>
+
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
- <h2>{{ _("Anonymous") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to
- be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and exchange will also
- never learn how you spent your electronic cash. However, you have
- proof that you paid for use in court if necessary.") }}</p>
+ <h2>{{ _("<b>A</b>nonymous") }}</h2>
+
+ <p>{{ _("When you pay with Taler, your identity does not
+ have to be revealed to the merchant. Just like
+ payments in cash, nobody else can track how you
+ spent your electronic money. However, you obtain a
+ legally valid proof of payment.") }}</p>
+
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
- <h2>{{ _("Libre") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("Taler is free software from <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/\">the GNU project</a> implementing an open protocol.
- Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference
- implementation into their applications. The payment system will
- thus foster competition instead of putting some vendor in control.") }}</p>
+ <h2>{{ _("<b>L</b>ibre") }}</h2>
+
+ <p>{{ _("Taler is free software
+ from <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/\">the GNU
+ project</a> implementing an open protocol. Anybody
+ is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our
+ reference implementation into their applications.")
+ }}</p>
+
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
- <h2>{{ _("Electronic") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("Taler is designed to work on the Internet. Using a
- so-called RESTful protocol over HTTP or HTTPS, Taler is easy to
- integrate with existing Web applications. Taler requires
- participants to be online when they make payments.") }}</p>
+ <h2>{{ _("<b>E</b>lectronic") }}</h2>
+
+ <p>{{ _("Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web
+ applications. Payments are cryptographically
+ secured and are confirmed within milliseconds with
+ extremely low transaction costs.") }}</p>
+
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
- <h2>{{ _("Reserves") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("Taler uses payment providers which hold financial
- reserves in escrow accounts denominated in existing currencies.
- This means that Taler does not introduce
- a new currency with the inherent currency fluctuation risks.
- Taler's cryptographic coins correspond to existing currencies, such as
- US Dollars, Euros or even BitCoins.") }}</p>
+ <h2>{{ _("<b>R</b>eserves") }}</h2>
+
+ <p>{{ _("Taler does not introduce a new currency with
+ fluctuation risks, and instead uses a digital
+ wallet holding coins in reserve. Taler's
+ cryptographic coins correspond to existing
+ currencies, such as US Dollars, Euros or even
+ BitCoins.") }}</p>
+
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<h2>{{ _("Latest Videos") }}</h2>