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                             <h3>Monero is secure.</h3>
-                            <p>Monero is a decentralized cryptocurrency, meaning it is extremely difficult to hack and steal your funds. Transactions are confirmed by distributed consensus, and then immutably recorded on the blockchain. Third-parties do not need to be trusted to keep your Monero safe. </p>
+                                <p>Monero is a decentralized cryptocurrency, meaning secure digital cash powered by an open network of users. Transactions are confirmed by distributed consensus, and then immutably recorded on the blockchain. You are the bank - no one knows how much you have or how you spend it. </p>
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                             <h3>Monero is private.</h3>
-                            <p>Monero uses ring signatures and ring confidential transactions to obfuscate the amounts, origins, and destinations of all transactions. Monero gains all the benefits of a decentralized cryptocurrency, without any of the standard privacy concessions. </p>
+                            <p>Monero uses ring signatures and ring confidential transactions to obfuscate the amounts, origins, and destinations of all transactions. Monero provides all the benefits of a decentralized cryptocurrency, without any of the privacy concessions. </p>
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                             <h3>Monero is fungible.</h3>
-                            <p> Monero is fungible because it is private by default. In its current state, it is extremely unlikely that Monero will ever be blacklisted by exchanges or vendors due to its association in previous transactions.</p>
+                            <p> Monero is fungible because it is private by default. This means no one can tell one Monero from another Monero. Monero will never be blacklisted by exchanges or vendors because there is no association to previous transactions.</p>
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                                 <h2>Moneropedia</h2>
-                                <p class="main-resources">Would you like to look up the meanings of the terms and concepts used in Monero? Here you will find an alphabetical list of terms and their meanings from both the Monero and Kovri projects.</p>
+                                <p class="main-resources">An open encyclopedia which demystifies Monero and cryptocurrency.  Here you will find an alphabetical guide to terms and their meanings from both the Monero and Kovri projects.</p>
                                 <p><a href="/resources/moneropedia/" class="btn-link btn-auto">Read Moneropedia</a></p>
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