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{% extends "common/base.j2" %}
{% block body_content %}

  <div class="jumbotron">
    <div class="container text-center">
      <h1>{{ _("Invest in Taler!") }}</h1>
      <div class="col-lg-12">
        <p>
          {% trans %}
            We have created a company, Taler Systems SA in
            Luxembourg.<br>
            Please contact <tt>invest@taler.net</tt>
            if you want to invest in Taler.
          {% endtrans %}
        </p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>


  <div class="container adorn_h3_bracket">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-lg-4">
        <h3>{{ _("The Team") }}</h3>

        <p>
          {% trans %}
            Our team combines world-class business leaders,
            cryptographers, software engineers, civil-rights
            activists and academics. We are unified by a vision
            of how payments should work and the goal of
            imposing this vision upon the world.
          {% endtrans %}
        </p>

        <p>
          {% trans %}
            We are currently supported by
            <a href="http://www.inria.fr/">Inria</a>,
            the French national institute for research in informatics and
            automation, and the
            <a href="https://renewablefreedom.org/">Renewable Freedom Foundation</a>.
          {% endtrans %}
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="col-lg-4">
        <h3>{{ _("The Technology") }}</h3>

        <p>
          {% trans %}
            All transactions in Taler are secured using
            <a href="bibliography.html">modern cryptography</a>
            and trust in all parties is minimized. Financial damage is bounded
            &#x28;for customers, merchants and the exchange&#x29; even in the case that
            systems are compromised and private keys are stolen.  Databases
            can be audited for consistency, resulting in either the detection
            of compromised systems or the demonstration that participants were
            honest. Actual transaction costs are fractions of a cent.
          {% endtrans %}
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="col-lg-4">
        <h3>{{ _("The Business") }}</h3>
        <p>
          {% trans %}
            The scalable business model for Taler is the operation
            of the payment service provider, which converts money from
            traditional payment systems (MasterCard, SEPA, UPI,
            Visa, Bitcoin, ACH, SWIFT, etc.) to anonymous
            electronic coins in the same currency. The customer
            can then redeem the electronic coins at a merchant,
            who can exchange them for money represented using
            traditional payment systems at the exchange.  The
            exchange charges fees to facilitate the transactions.
          {% endtrans %}
        </p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>


  <div class="container-fluid c_acronym">
    <div class="container">
      <h2>{{ _("The Business Case") }}</h2>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <a href="{{ url('presentations/investors2018.pdf') }}">
            <img border=0 class="center-block" width=64 height=64 alt="PDF" src="{{ url_static('images/pdf.svg') }}">
            <br>
            <p align="center">{{ _("Download") }}</p>
          </a>

          <p>
            {% trans %}
              Our <a href="financial-news.html">financial news</a> page
              explains in English how Taler can impact current developments in
              the global payment market.
            {% endtrans %}
          </p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-4" id="canvas-left" style="display:none">
          <canvas id="the-canvas-left"></canvas>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-4" id="canvas-right" style="display:none">
          <canvas id="the-canvas-right"></canvas>
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ url_dist('js/pdf.min.js') }}"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ url_dist('js/pdf-view.js') }}"></script>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>


  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-lg-12">
        <h2 id="overview">{{ _("Running a Taler payment service operator") }}</h2>

        <p>
          {% trans %}
            The payment service operator runs the <em>Taler exchange</em>.
            The exchange charges <b>transaction fees</b> to customers or merchants.
            Its operational expenses are from wire transfers with the banking
            system and the operation of the computing infrastructure.
          {% endtrans %}
        </p>

        <p>
          <ul>
            <li>{{ _("Cryptographic operations, bandwidth and storage costs are less than 0.01 cent per transaction.") }}</li>
            <li>{{ _("Multiple Taler transactions can be aggregated into larger wire transfers to merchants to minimize wire transfer costs.") }}</li>
            <li>{{ _("Protocol allows the exchange to charge fees for any expensive operation (withdraw, deposit, refresh, refund or aggregated wire transfers).") }}</li>
            <li>{{ _("Partnership with banks establishes consumer trust.") }}</li>
            <li>{{ _("Partnership with free software community enables rapid deployment.") }}</li>
          </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>


{% endblock body_content %}