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 ## Usage
 
-This repository (`go-libp2p`) serves as the entrypoint to the universe of modules that compose the Go implementation of the libp2p stack. Libp2p requires go 1.12+.
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-We mainly use [Go modules](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules) for our dependency and release management (and thus require go >= 1.12+). In order to get the best developer experience, we recommend you do too. Otherwise, you may ocassionally encounter a breaking build as you'll be running off master (which, by definition, is not guaranteed to be stable).
+This repository (`go-libp2p`) serves as the entrypoint to the universe of modules that compose the Go implementation of the libp2p stack.
 
 You can start using go-libp2p in your Go application simply by adding imports from our repos, e.g.: