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                            <h1 id="main-h1">Monero</h1>
                            <h2 id="main-h2">Private Digital Currency</h2>
                            <p id="main-text">Monero is a secure, private, untraceable currency. It is open-source and freely available to all. With Monero, you are your own bank. Only 
                            you control and are responsible for your funds; your accounts 
                            and transactions are kept private from prying eyes.</p>
                            <p><a href="/get-started/using/" class="btn-link btn-auto btn-primary">Get Started</a></p>
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                        <div class="col"><h2>Why Monero is different</h2></div>
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                            <h3>Monero is secure.</h3>
                            <p>Monero can't be hacked to steal your funds, due to the power of distributed consensus, which you can read about here. This means that you are responsible for your money, and don't have to trust any entity to keep it safe for you.</p>
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                            <h3>Monero is private.</h3>
                            <p>The power of the blockchain usually increases security at the cost of privacy, but with Monero's sophisticated privacy-centric technology, you get all of the security benefits of the blockchain without any of the privacy trade-offs.</p>
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                            <h3>Monero is untraceable.</h3>
                            <p>By taking advantage of ring signatures, Monero makes it ambiguous which funds have been spent, and thus extremely unlikely that a transaction could be linked to particular user.</p>
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                            <h3>Monero is fungible.</h3>
                            <p>Because of the on-by-default nature of the privacy technologies, Monero is fungible, meaning one Monero will always be equal to another. This means you won't have to worry about Monero blacklisted by exchanges or vendors.</p>
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                            <div class="col"><h2>Downloads</h2></div>
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                                    <p><a href="/downloads#windows" class="btn-link btn-fixed"><span class="icon-windows"></span>Monero for Windows</a></p>
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                                    <p><a href="/downloads#mac" class="btn-link btn-fixed"><span class="icon-apple"></span>Monero for Mac</a></p>
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                                    <p><a href="/downloads#linux" class="btn-link btn-fixed"><span class="icon-linux"></span>Monero for Linux</a></p>
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                                    <p><a href="/downloads#source" class="btn-link btn-fixed"><span class="icon-blockchain"></span>Latest Blockchain</a></p>
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                                <div class="col-xs-12"><p class="main-downloads">Need it for a different operating system? <a href="/downloads/">View all available downloads here.</a></p>
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                                    <p><a href="/blog/">More news</a></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><a href="/resources/moneropedia/" class="btn-link btn-auto">Read Moneropedia</a></p>
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                                <h2>User Guides</h2>
                                <p class="main-resources">Step-by-step guides to all things Monero are separated by category and cover everything from creating a wallet, recovering a wallet, and even how to edit this website.</p>
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                                <h2>FAQ</h2>
                                <p class="main-resources">We've heard a lot of questions over the years and have compiled, for your convenience, a thorough and varied FAQ. Don't worry, if your questions are not on here, you can always ask the community.</p>
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