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            <h1 class="section-title">All the good stuff.</h1>
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                Universal Timestamping
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                Build your trust network
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                Gain supply chain transparency
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            <h1 class="section-title">Bigchain is different.</h1>
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            <span class="difference__text">Federation consensus model – public via trusted nodes (more coming soon), private (select your own)</span>
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            <span class="difference__text">We imbued blockchain characteristics on big data, rather than trying to big-datafy blockchain.</span>
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            <span class="difference__text">Open source, public version for the world and a private one for specific industry use cases.</span>
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            For more insight, read our <a href="/whitepaper/">whitepaper</a>.
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            <h1 class="section-title">Timeline.</h1>
            <p class="section-description">Private beta is shipping now. <a href="/contact/">Contact us</a> for more information. Public Bigchain will be released soon</p>
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                <span class="timeline__entry__title">Whitepaper</span>
                <span class="timeline__entry__time">Early 2015</span>
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                <span class="timeline__entry__title">Private Beta</span>
                <span class="timeline__entry__time">Jan 2016</span>
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                <span class="timeline__entry__title">Public</span>
                <span class="timeline__entry__time">Soon</span>
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