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 Ethereum Go (c) [0255c7881](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum#copy)
 
 A fair warning; Ethereum is not yet to be used in production. There's no
-test-net and you aren't mining read blocks (just one which is the genesis block).
+test-net and you aren't mining real blocks (just one which is the genesis block).
 
 
 Ethereum Go is split up in several sub packages. Please refer to each