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authorChristian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>2020-07-22 23:56:52 +0200
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@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ For purposes of anti-money-laundering and taxation, a more detailed audit of
the merchant's transactions can be desirable. A government tax authority can
request the merchant to reveal the business agreement details that match the
contract terms hash recorded with the exchange. If a merchant is not able to
-provide theses values, they can be subjected to financial penalties by the
+provide these values, they can be subjected to financial penalties by the
state in relation to the amount transferred by the traditional currency
transfer.
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ Yet another type of fee are the \emph{wire transfer fees}, which are charged
by the exchange for every wire transfer to a merchant in order to compensate for
the cost of making a transaction in the underlying bank system. The wire
transfer fees encourage merchants to choose longer aggregation periods, as the
-fee is charged per transaction and independant of the amount.
+fee is charged per transaction and independent of the amount.
Merchants can also specify the maximum wire fee they are willing to cover for
customers, along with an \emph{amortization rate} for the wire fees. In case
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ fails to do so, coins may {\em expire}, resulting in a loss for the coin's
owner. Dirty coins can also expire. In practice, this happens if the melt fee
exceeds the residual value of the dirty coin. To {\em melt} a coin, the
wallet must commit to one or more {\em planchets} and then demonstrate honesty
-when the committment made for the {\em refresh session} is checked during the
+when the commitment made for the {\em refresh session} is checked during the
{\em reveal} step. If the wallet was honest, {\em reveal} yields {\em fresh
coins}.
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ GNU Taler
by giving change online (Onl.) or by divisible coins that support offline
operation (Off.)?
\item \textbf{Receipts \& Refunds.}
- The customer either can prove that they payed for
+ The customer either can prove that they paid for
a contract, or they can get their (unlinkable) money back.
Also merchants can issue refunds for completed transactions.
These operations must not introduce linkability or otherwise
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ Some of the most important decisions for the design of blockchains are the follo
consensus protocols. Their proposed system does not have any incentives
for validators.
- Avalance \cite{rocket2018snowflake} has been proposed as a scalable
+ Avalanche \cite{rocket2018snowflake} has been proposed as a scalable
Byzantine Consensus algorithm for use with blockchains. It is based on a
gossip protocol and is only shown to work in the synchronous model.