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 CKPOOL + CKDB + libckpool by Con Kolivas and Andrew Smith.
 
-Ultra low overhead massively scaleable multi-process, multi-threaded modular
+Ultra low overhead massively scalable multi-process, multi-threaded modular
 bitcoin mining pool, proxy, passthrough, library and database interface in c
 for Linux.