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Fix possible typos in chapter 11.2
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### Understand a CLTV Absolute Block Height
This is how `OPCHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY` would check against a blockheight that was reached on May 24, 2017:
This is how `OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY` would check against a blockheight that was reached on May 24, 2017:
```
467951 OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
```
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## Summary: Using CLTV in Scripts
`OP-CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY` is a simple opcode that looks at a single argument, interprets it as a blockheight or UNIX timestamp, and only allows its UTXO to be unlocked if that blockheight or UNIX timestamp is in the past. Setting `nLockTime` on the spending transaction is what allows Bitcoin to make this calculation.
`OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY` is a simple opcode that looks at a single argument, interprets it as a blockheight or UNIX timestamp, and only allows its UTXO to be unlocked if that blockheight or UNIX timestamp is in the past. Setting `nLockTime` on the spending transaction is what allows Bitcoin to make this calculation.
> :fire: ***What is the Power of CLTV?*** You've already seem that simple locktimes were one of the bases of Smart Contracts. CLTV takes the next step. Now you can both guarantee that a UTXO can't be spent before a certain time _and_ guarantee that it won't be spent either. In its simplest form, this could be used to create a trust that someone could only access when they reached 18 or a retirement fund that they could only access when they turned 50. However its true power comes when combined with conditionals, where the CLTV only activates in certain situations.