From 0e808b648a56e3e4e17d6e03ce776b0b7a422f25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Grothoff Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 23:56:52 +0200 Subject: fix misc typos --- doc/system/taler/design.tex | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/system/taler/design.tex') diff --git a/doc/system/taler/design.tex b/doc/system/taler/design.tex index de91daa13..c9e45f9b3 100644 --- a/doc/system/taler/design.tex +++ b/doc/system/taler/design.tex @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3