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 == Abstract ==
 
-Define a service bit that allow pruned peers to signal their limited services
+Define a service bit that allows pruned peers to signal their limited services.
 
 ==Motivation==
 
-Pruned peers can offer the same services as traditional peer except of serving all historical blocks.
-Bitcoin right now only offers the NODE_NETWORK service bit which indicates that a peer can serve
+Pruned peers can offer the same services as traditional peers, except that of serving all historical blocks.
+Bitcoin right now only offers the <code>NODE_NETWORK</code> service bit to indicate that a peer can serve
 all historical blocks.
 # Pruned peers can relay blocks, headers, transactions, and addresses, but they only guarantee serving a minimum number of historical blocks; thus, they should have a way to announce their service(s)
-# Peers no longer in initial block download should consider connecting some of its outbound connections to pruned peers to allow other peers to bootstrap from non-pruned peers
+# Peers no longer in initial block download should consider connecting some of their outbound connections to pruned peers, to allow other peers to bootstrap from non-pruned peers
 
 == Specification ==
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Full nodes following this BIP <I>SHOULD</I> relay address/services (<code>addr</
 
 === Counter-measures for peer fingerprinting ===
 
-Peers may have different prune depths (depending on the peers configuration, disk space, etc.) which can result in a fingerprinting weakness (finding the prune depth through getdata requests).
+Peers may have different prune depths (depending on their configuration, disk space, etc.), which can result in a fingerprinting weakness (finding the prune depth through getdata requests).
 
 Pruned nodes should therefore avoid leaking the prune depth and <I>SHOULD NOT</I> serve blocks deeper than the signaled <code>NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED</code> threshold of 288 blocks.