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 ## Developer guide
 
-Please refer to [monero-javascript's developer guide](https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-javascript#developer-guide) which mostly translates to this C++ library.
+Refer to [monero-javascript's developer guide](https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-javascript#developer-guide) which mostly translates to this C++ library.
 
 ## See also