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@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ existence using the respective coin signing key.  In this case, the
 mint can allow the original set of customers to exchange the coins
 that were signed with the compromised private key, while refusing
 further transactions from merchants if they involve those coins.  As a
-result, the financial damage of loosing a private signing key can be
+result, the financial damage of losing a private signing key can be
 limited to at most twice the amount originally signed with that key.
 To ensure that the mint does not enable deanonymization of users by
 signing each coin with a fresh coin signing key, the mint must