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author | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2017-02-10 15:47:01 +0100 |
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committer | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2017-02-10 16:53:52 +0100 |
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updates to pages based on discussions with Leon and Sva
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diff --git a/index.html.j2 b/index.html.j2 index f270892c..ea49f8d0 100644 --- a/index.html.j2 +++ b/index.html.j2 @@ -14,51 +14,69 @@ <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> |