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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<title>{{ _("GNU Taler") }}</title>
- <meta name="description" content="Anonymous electronic payments for civil society"/>
+ <meta name="description" content="{{ _('Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves') }}" />
{% include "common/header.j2.inc" %}
</head>
<body>
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
<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>. Today, this website only
- presents the advantages our system is expected to provide. We expect to
- make the payment system operational in 2017.") }}</p>
+ 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">
@@ -32,14 +32,15 @@
<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 money. However, you can
- prove that you paid in court if necessary.") }}</p>
+ never learn how you spent your electronic cash. However, you have
+ proof that you paid for use in court if necessary.") }}</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.") }}</p>
+ implementation into their applications. The payment system will
+ thus foster competition instead of putting some vendor in control.") }}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
@@ -47,38 +48,38 @@
<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.") }}</p>
+ integrate with existing Web applications. Taler requires
+ participants to be online when they make payments.") }}</p>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<h2>{{ _("Reserves") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("Taler uses an electronic exchange holding financial
- reserves in existing currencies. This means that Taler is not
- a new currency with the inherent currency fluctuation risks, but
- instead the cryptographic coins correspond to existing currencies, such as
+ <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>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
- <h2>{{ _("News") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("Taler Web payments paper published.") }}</p>
- <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="news" role="button">{{ _("More news ยป") }}</a></p>
+ <h2>{{ _("Latest Videos") }}</h2>
+ <p>{{ _("Florian Dold talks about Taler at 50p!") }}</p>
+ <video id="video" poster="/videos/dold50p.png" autobuffer="" height="180" width="320" controls="controls">
+ <source src="/videos/dold50p.webm" type="video/webm">
+ <source src="/videos/dold50p.ogv=216" type="video/ogv">
+ </video>
+ <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="/images/ccby.png"></a><br>"<span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">GNU Taler</span>" by <span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="cc:attributionName">Florian Dold, produced by 50p</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported License</a>.
</div>
</div>
- <div class="col-lg-12">
- <h2 id="taxability">{{ _("Taler technology: About taxability, change and privacy") }}</h2>
- <p>{{ _("One of the key goals of Taler is to provide anonymity for
- citizens buying goods and services, while ensuring that the state can
- observe incoming transactions to ensure businesses engage only in
- legal activities and do not evade taxes (such as income tax,
- sales tax or value-added tax). However, we also want to stay
- out of the immediate personal domain, so sharing funds within a
- family or copying coins between devices should not be subject to
- monitoring by the state.
- ") }}</p>
- <p>{{ _("As a result, Taler does not intrude into the
- personal economic domain, offers good privacy, taxability
- for transactions and the ability to give change.
- ") }}</p>
- </div>
+ <div class="row">
+ <div class="col-lg-6">
+ <h2>{{ _("Taler News") }}</h2>
+ {% include "news.html.j2" %}
+ </div>
+ <div class="col-lg-6">
+ <h2>{{ _("Financial News") }}</h2>
+ {% include "financial-news.html.j2" %}
+ </div>
+ </div>
{% include "common/footer.j2.inc" %}
</div> <!-- /container -->
</body>