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 I'm not going to make contributing guidelines and qualifications until there is more participation. Until then:
 
-<b><u>Pull Requests are Welcome</u></b>
+<u>Pull Requests Welcome</u>
 
 The decentralized-id [README](https://github.com/infominer33/awesome-decentralized-id/) is getting close to polished as far as I'm concerned, while there is still plenty of work to do on the Sovrin-Indy [README](https://github.com/infominer33/awesome-decentralized-id/blob/master/awesome-sovrin/).