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 Collision-resistant hashes for the cloud, in Go.
 
-The ```cuid`` package provides collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and sequential lookup performance. This README file is just going to cover the basics and the Go-specific implementation details.
+The `cuid` package provides collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and sequential lookup performance. This README file is just going to cover the basics and the Go-specific implementation details.
 
 **Please refer to the [main project site](http://usecuid.org) for the full rationale behind CUIDs.**