diff --git a/ch08_signatures.adoc b/ch08_signatures.adoc index a7154446..8b8eaa85 100644 --- a/ch08_signatures.adoc +++ b/ch08_signatures.adoc @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ need for the decentralized Bitcoin network. The first of these is that it relies on Bob waiting for Alice to commit to her public nonce and then Bob giving her a random challenge scalar. In Bitcoin, the spender of every transaction needs to be authenticated by thousands of Bitcoin -full nodes--including future nodes that haven't been started yet but +full nodes—including future nodes that haven't been started yet but whose operators will one day want to ensure the bitcoins they receive came from a chain of transfers where every transaction was valid. Any Bitcoin node that is unable to communicate with Alice, today or in the