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 Purpose:
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-Provide a demo applications that does signing and validation. The user will create a signature, and then validate it against a Solidity  smart contract.
+Provide a demo application that does signing and validation. The user will create a signature, and then validate it against a Solidity  smart contract.
 
 Requirements:
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Requirements:
 
 Setup:
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-1. Start privae Ethereum node (`geth --datadir ... --networkid ... --mine --minerthreads 1 --rpc ...`)
+1. Start private Ethereum node (`geth --datadir ... --networkid ... --mine --minerthreads 1 --rpc ...`)
 2. Clone repo
 3. cd into repo
 4. npm install