dergigi · GarthPalmer · Nov 21, 2022
diff --git a/_includes/way/01.md b/_includes/way/01.md
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ as though the same token can be handed from person to person.
 In essence, a user can create RPOW tokens via the RPOW client software,
 which takes a proof-of-work string as generated by the Hashcash software
 invented by Adam Back. This string is signed by the user's private key
-and subsequently registered by an RPOW server, recording that this token
+and subsequently registered by a RPOW server, recording that this token
 is belonging to the user's public key. The user can then pass that
 token on to someone else by signing a "transfer order" to another
 user's public key. The server then duly registers the token as
@@ -512,14 +512,14 @@ determine a chain of ownership. This allows proof-of-work tokens to be
 re-used, albeit in a limited, sequential way.
 
 While the RPOW architecture is hierarchical, i.e. its clients rely on
-specialized servers, the trust users need to have in an RPOW server is
+specialized servers, the trust users need to have in a RPOW server is
 minimized. This is possible because the RPOW server software is run on
 an IBM 4758 secure cryptographic coprocessor, a high-security
 tamper-resistant PCI board that cryptographically ensures that the
 software running on the server is the software that was published and
 audited. This makes any RPOW server a system whose security properties
-can be analyzed and evaluated by anyone. In other words, an RPOW server
-is a *transparent server*, which makes the RPOW system as a whole
+can be analyzed and evaluated by anyone. In other words, a RPOW server
+is *transparent*, which makes the RPOW system as a whole
 trust-minimized. Everyone knows the code that makes the system work, as
 well as the rules that are in place. 
 
@@ -750,8 +750,8 @@ Bitcoin manages to implement them in a decentralized way:
     Bitcoin system. There are no sign-up forms, no central authorities
     to approve or deny applications, no servers in charge of logins. In
     essence, creating an account in Bitcoin is just a matter of
-    generating a large random number. You can even flip a coin a couple
-    of times, or roll a pair of dice, as long as you know what you're
+    generating a large random number. You can even flip a coin multiple
+    times, or roll a pair of dice, as long as you know what you're
     doing (and your dice and coin flips are fair).
 -   **Record Ownership:** In Bitcoin, every full node has a
     copy of the ownership records. This radical approach is a simple way
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ Bitcoin manages to implement them in a decentralized way:
     block, i.e. roughly every ten minutes. Bitcoin's supply was
     predetermined at its inception, and arguably, this is the most
     valuable property of Bitcoin. No other asset in existence has what
-    Bitcoin has: an unchanging supply schedule that can not be argued
+    Bitcoin has: an unchanging supply schedule that cannot be argued
     with.
 
 In short, mathematics allows for the decentralization of all the
@@ -824,8 +824,8 @@ up-to-date and in sync. This is what is known as the **oracle
 problem**, and proof-of-work solves it in an ingenious,
 roundabout way: by using energy, and thus physics, as the base truth.
 One can also think of the oracle problem as a variant of the GIGO
-principle: Garbage In, Garbage Out. You have to trust whoever is keeping
-the records that the records are correct. Phrased differently: you can
+principle: Garbage In, Garbage Out. You have to trust that whoever is
+keeping the records is doing so correctly. Phrased differently: you can
 never be sure that the data at hand represents reality, except if the
 reality is rooted in computation itself.
 
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ digital scarcity aren't easy problems to solve. Satoshi's breakthrough
 was to find a way to solve both of these problems practically, not
 academically. The first is solved by a globally
 shared **timechain** that is kept in sync via a competitive lottery, the
-second is solved by the **difficulty adjustment** as well as the **block
+second is solved by the **difficulty adjustment** and the **block
 reward halving**. Bitcoin uses the best ideas of its predecessors
 (digital signatures, reusable proof-of-work, peer-to-peer networks) and
 combines them in an ingenious way to create something completely new: a
@@ -868,13 +868,13 @@ that plagued digital money for decades --- *double-spending* and *digital
 scarcity* --- is possible. Releasing his software into the wild set in motion a
 multi-decade process that is driven by an extremely powerful incentive
 structure. An unstoppable idea, embodied in code. It is this incentive structure
-that drives Bitcoin's survival. And with every passing day that Bitcoin refuses
+that drives Bitcoin's survival. With every passing day that Bitcoin refuses
 to die, humanity is one step closer to freeing money from the capture of the
 state. It will take some time for the world to come to grips with this most
 powerful idea. Amusingly, time is also the reason why Bitcoin works in the first
-place since the main insight Satoshi had is how to keep the [time] in a
-decentralized system. Many people thought that this problem was insoluble. Turns
-out that all that was missing was the right idea.
+place, since the main insight Satoshi had was how to keep the [time] in a
+decentralized system. Many people thought that this problem was unsolvable.
+All that was missing was the right idea.
 
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