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 Blazingly fast, multi-threaded BitTorrent tracker written in Rust.
 
 Consists of separate executables:
-  * `aquatic_udp`: UDP BitTorrent tracker with double the thoughput of
+  * `aquatic_udp`: UDP BitTorrent tracker with double the throughput of
     opentracker
   * `aquatic_ws`: WebTorrent tracker (experimental)