From 0e808b648a56e3e4e17d6e03ce776b0b7a422f25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
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.
 
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