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diff --git a/content/blog/2018/024-How-Many-ERC20-Tokens-Do-You-Have.md b/content/blog/2018/024-How-Many-ERC20-Tokens-Do-You-Have.md
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ lead: You may never know
 date: '2018-04-20T23:11:49.781Z'
 draft: false
 categories:
-- Ethereum
-tags: ['ethereum']
+- TrueBlocks
+tags: ['trueblocks']
 keywords: []
 ---
 

diff --git a/content/contact/index.md b/content/contact/index.md
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ draft: true
 images: []
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-{{< email user="tjayrush" domain="quickblocks.io" >}}
+{{< email user="jrush" domain="quickblocks.io" >}}
diff --git a/content/data-model/data-model-600.png → content/data-model/img/data-model-600.png b/content/data-model/data-model-600.png → content/data-model/img/data-model-600.png
diff --git a/content/data-model/img/the-index.png b/content/data-model/img/the-index.png
diff --git a/content/data-model/intro.md b/content/data-model/intro.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: "Enhanced ethereum data"
-description: "Underlying all Ethereum data─and therefore all TrueBlocks data─is a set of inter-related data models."
-lead: "Underlying all Ethereum data─and therefore all TrueBlocks data─is a set of inter-related data models."
+title: "Blockchain data"
+description: "Ethereum consists of multiple different data models. TrueBlocks exposes them all."
+lead: "Ethereum consists of multiple different data models. TrueBlocks exposes them all."
 date: 2021-07-01T11:40:11-03:00
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 toc: true
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-<img src="/data-model/data-model-600.png" alt="TrueBlocks is full of data that interrelates." width="600"/>
+<img src="/data-model/img/data-model-600.png" alt="TrueBlocks is full of data that interrelates." width="600"/>
 
-## Blockchain + people = TrueBlocks-enhanced data
+## TrueBlocks data
 
-On its own Ethereum blockchain data is just a boring blob of bytes.
-What really interests us are the stories behind this data--questions like:
-* What addresses were involved?
-* Can I see all transactions involved this address?
-* When did the transaction happen?
-* What smart contracts were involved?
+On its own blockchain data is an unintelligable blob of binary bytes. But, we all know there
+is an amazing collection of deeply interesting information contained therein. Thousands of 
+people are trading, voting, expressing thier preferences, making markets for valueless
+items every minute.
 
-Through TrueBlock's `--articulate` option, you can unpack the input fields
-of transactions and trace through the whole history of contract calls.
+What interests us about this data are answers to questions such as:
+* What exaclty is going on?
+* Where is my money?
+* Didn't I have some of those tokens somewhere?
+* May I please just get a list of my transactions?
 
-The account-organized data describes things like account collections, account
-balances, and transaction histories. This data tells you the _who_, _where_, and
-_why_ behind the Blockchain transactions. It is where TrueBlocks really shines.
+TrueBlocks allows you to query this type of information and more. Using the
+`chifra list` option, one may list every detail of any transaction that happened
+against one's own wallet address (or anyone else's for that matter).
 
-## This data applies to all TrueBlocks apps
+The `--articulate` option, which is available on many commands, reanimates
+or articulates the impossible-to-understand `input` and `event` data fields.
+TrueBlocks even articulates trace data which reveals the deep history of 
+any transaction include multi-layer deep smart contract calls.
 
-Because all TrueBlocks apps use the same backend, these references describe
-the data found with the command line, the Explorer app, and the API. However,
-the presentation of the data may change depending on the app and file format.
+TrueBlocks works as easily with multiple related addresses at a time as it
+does with individual addresses. One can view entire asset balance histories,
+detailed voting histories for a DAO, or the ownership status on one's POAPs
+and ENS names. We even allow exporting of Open Financial Exchange files which
+is what your bank uses to export your transactions to accounting software.
 
+## Consistent apis / interfaces
+
+Each of the TrueBlocks endpoints and command-line tools are built on
+the same core libraries (many of which are in Go). Our server (`chifra serve`)
+uses the command line tools directly to complete many of its tasks, therefore
+the interfaces are identical. Applications built on top of TrueBlocks have
+a consistent, stable data interface.
+
+## Open source
+
+Furthermore, TrueBlocks is fully open
+source. If you don't like something, change it and make a PR (non-commercial
+use only). If you're a commercial entity, feel free to make changes, but
+remember, you must either license the code separately or release your
+modifications under the same open source license. Please contact us about our
+licensing plans if you have a non-public, commercial use case.
diff --git a/content/data-model/the-index.md b/content/data-model/the-index.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
-title: "The index"
-description: "The index is the skeleton key that lets you explore the data and all its relations"
-lead: "The index is the skeleton key that lets you explore the data  and all its relations"
+title: "Unchained index"
+description: "Unchained Index allows blazingly fast, perfectly-private access to any account anywhere on the chain."
+lead: "Unchained Index allows blazingly fast, perfectly-private access to any account anywhere on the chain."
 date: 2021-07-06T09:35:59-03:00
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+<img src="/data-model/img/the-index.png" alt="The Unchained Index." width="600"/>
+
+## Benefits of unchaining the index
+
+We've written a lot about the Unchained Index elsewhere. We won't belabour the point, however, we want
+to point out that the Unchained Index:
+
+- Allows blazingly fast access to any account anywhere on the chain
+- Allows perfectly-private access to query blockchain data completely locally
+- Naturally shards itself and distributes itself using IPFS and user behaviour
+- Is published periodically to a smart contract and once published cannot be removed from public use
+- Is reproducable directly from immutable data with a well-defined series of operations meaning its as immutable as the original blockchain data
+- Compact
+- Digs deeper into the blockchain than any other source allowing for instantaneous, 18-decimal-place accurate off-chain reconciliation of any account
+- Blazingly fast
+
+## Links to articles about TrueBlocks
+
+Here we present a number of articles we've written about TrueBlocks over the years. Read at least a few of these and you will better understand what we're trying to do.
+
+| Title and description                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [<font color="blue">A Long-Winded Explanation of TrueBlocks</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/a-long-winded-explanation-of-trueblocks/)<br>- *in which we go on and on about how things work and why*                                       |
+| [<font color="blue">How Accurate is EtherScan</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/how-accurate-is-etherscan/)<br>- *in which we compare TrueBlocks with EtherScan's apis*                                                                     |
+| [<font color="blue">Comparison of TrueBlocks and The Graph</font>](http://localhost:1313/papers/2021/the-difference-between-trueBlocks-and-rotki-and-trueBlocks-and-thegraph.pdf)<br>- *in which we compare TrueBlocks to The Graph*         |
+| [<font color="blue">Custom Traversers</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/dynamic-traversers-for-trueblocks/)<br>- *in which we describe how to enhance the extracted data*                                                                   |
+| [<font color="blue">Simple Undeniable Facts</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/simple-undeniable-facts/)<br>- *in which we argue strongly for full decentralization*                                                                         |
+| [<font color="blue">A Time-Ordered Log of an Index of a Time-Ordered Log</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/a-time-ordered-index-of-time-ordered-immutable-data/)<br>- *in which we describe why old-fashioned web 2.0 indexes don't cut it* |
+| [<font color="blue">Indexing Addresses on the Ethereum Blockchain</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/indexing-addresses-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/)<br>- *in which we describe the process of building the unchained index*                 |
+| [<font color="blue">Mother May I</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/mother-may-i/)<br>- *in which we play a childish and churlish game with our users*                                                                                       |
+| [<font color="blue">Building an Account Scraper with TrueBlocks</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/building-an-ethereum-account-scraper-with-trueblocks/)<br>- *in which we describe the technical details of building the index*            |
+| [<font color="blue">How Many ERC20 Tokens Do I Have?</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/how-many-erc20-tokens-do-you-have/)<br>- *in which we describe why it's hard to know and how TrueBlocks helps*                                       |
+| [<font color="blue">Accounting for the Revolution</font>](http://localhost:1313/blog/accounting-for-the-revolution/)<br>- *a very early paper in which we first try to describe TrueBlocks*                                                  |
diff --git a/redirects.txt b/redirects.txt
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 /docs/prologue/how-can-i-get-the-index.md > /docs/install/get-the-index
 /docs/prologue/install-explorer.md > /docs/install/install-explorer
 
+/data-model/the-index.md > /data-model/unchained-index.md
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		/data-model/the-index.md > /data-model/unchained-index.md