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CH02::Alice pays Bob: remove text about payment completion

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Existing text claimed that Alice's unconfirmed transaction completed the
payment to Bob, but Bob would be wise to wait for a $750 transaction to
confirm.

I think this is a problem resulting from a previous edit to the
second-edition text where the example was changed from a cup of coffee
at a cafe to a laptop.  A cup of coffee is cheap and has no resale
value, so the chance of fraud is small; a laptop is expensive and has
significant resale value, making fraud a greater risk.
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@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Alice uses her smartphone to scan the barcode on display. Her smartphone
shows a payment for the correct amount to +Bob's Store+ and she selects Send to
authorize the payment. Within a few seconds (about the same amount of
time as a credit card authorization), Bob sees the transaction on the
register, completing the transaction.
register.
In the following sections, we will examine this transaction in more
detail. We'll see how Alice's wallet constructed it, how it was