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- #1publishby system:backfill2026-05-14 06:03:02ZScore: ? → ? (no score change)anchoranchored
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{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","kind":"publish","page_slug":"bitcoin","published_at":"2026-05-14T06:03:01.926Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"Bitcoin","sections":[{"content":"Bitcoin was introduced in a whitepaper titled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,' published on October 31, 2008, by an individual or group using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The Bitcoin network launched on January 3, 2009, when Nakamoto mined the genesis block. The first Bitcoin transaction occurred on January 12, 2009, when Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to cryptographer Hal Finney. Bitcoin operates on a proof-of-work blockchain secured by the SHA-256 algorithm, with a fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins. The block reward is halved approximately every four years; halvings occurred in 2012, 2016, 2020, and April 20, 2024 (to 3.125 BTC at block height 840,000). Key protocol upgrades include SegWit and Taproot (activated November 2021).","heading":"Protocol Background and History","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"History of Bitcoin - Wikipedia","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Satoshi Nakamoto publishes Bitcoin whitepaper - HISTORY","type":"other","url":"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-31/satoshi-nakamoto-publishes-a-paper-introducing-bitcoin"},{"credibility":2,"name":"2024 Bitcoin Halving - Fidelity Digital Assets","type":"research","url":"https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/research-and-insights/2024-bitcoin-halving-one-year-later"}]},{"content":"Bitcoin has a clearer regulatory classification than nearly any other cryptocurrency. The CFTC declared Bitcoin a commodity under the Commodity Exchange Act in 2015. The SEC does not treat Bitcoin as a security. On January 10, 2024, the SEC approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETPs including BlackRock IBIT, Grayscale, Fidelity, and ARK 21Shares. On March 17, 2026, the SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretation classifying Bitcoin as a 'digital commodity.' On March 6, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order establishing the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (~328,372 BTC from asset forfeiture). El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in September 2021 but reversed that status in January 2025 under IMF pressure.","heading":"Regulatory Status","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"SEC Approves Bitcoin ETPs - TechCrunch","type":"news_article","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/sec-approves-spot-bitcoin-etf/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"CFTC/SEC Joint Crypto Asset Classification","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9198-26"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Strategic Bitcoin Reserve - White House","type":"official","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/"}]},{"content":"The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains unknown. Nakamoto communicated through email and forums from 2008 to 2011, then disappeared. Nakamoto's estimated 1.1 million BTC have never moved. Craig Wright repeatedly claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. In May 2024, U.K. High Court Justice James Mellor ruled Wright 'lied to the Court extensively and repeatedly,' committed 'forgery on a grand scale,' and is definitively not Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright was sentenced in December 2024 to 12 months suspended prison for contempt of court.","heading":"Creator Identity","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Satoshi Nakamoto - Wikipedia","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi - CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/14/craig-wright-not-satoshi-didnt-author-bitcoin-whitepaper-judge-rules"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Bitcoin Identity Trial - Morgan Lewis","type":"other","url":"https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2024/05/bitcoin-identity-trial-concludes-dr-craig-wright-is-not-the-creator-of-bitcoin"}]},{"content":"Bitcoin has historically experienced drawdowns of 50 to 80 percent from peak prices. It crossed $100,000 for the first time in December 2024, reached an all-time high of approximately $125,835 on October 6, 2025, then retreated. Market cap as of May 2026 was approximately $1.6 trillion. Bitcoin has no backing by a government, central bank, or hard asset.","heading":"Market Volatility and Speculative Risk","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Bitcoin Price History - CoinMarketCap","type":"other","url":"https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Bitcoin ATH - Yahoo Finance","type":"news_article","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-price-surges-time-high-053751894.html"}]},{"content":"Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus requires substantial energy. As of early 2025, the network consumed approximately 175 TWh annually (~0.5% of global electricity). A 2025 Nature Scientific Reports study found 34 large U.S. Bitcoin mines increased PM2.5 pollution affecting approximately 1.9 million people. Approximately 43 to 52% of Bitcoin mining used renewable energy as of 2025. New York enacted a two-year moratorium on new fossil-fuel-powered mining.","heading":"Environmental and Energy Concerns","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"U.S. EIA - Tracking cryptocurrency mining electricity","type":"official","url":"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Environmental effects of bitcoin mining - Nature","type":"research","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-92314-z"}]},{"content":"Bitcoin's security model assumes no single entity controls more than 50% of hashrate. As of 2025, the United States controls an estimated 35 to 75% of global hashrate. Four to six pools collectively control more than 95% of blocks mined. A successful 51% attack would require an estimated $6 billion+ in hardware and energy. No confirmed 51% attack has ever been executed against Bitcoin mainnet.","heading":"Mining Centralization Risk","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Bitcoin Mining Centralization - Bitcoin Magazine","type":"news_article","url":"https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/bitcoin-mining-centralization-in-the-u-s-a-new-risk-for-the-industry"},{"credibility":1,"name":"51% Attack Vulnerability - Springer Nature","type":"research","url":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40747-026-02256-w"}]},{"content":"Bitcoin's pseudonymity has made it a common medium for illicit transactions. According to the FBI IC3 2025 report, Americans lost $11.366 billion to crypto-linked fraud in 2025 (22% YoY increase). Bitcoin ATM fraud caused $333 million in losses in 2025, a 58% YoY increase. These losses reflect fraud using Bitcoin as a payment rail, not protocol flaws. Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimated $24.2 billion in total illicit crypto transactions in 2023.","heading":"Illicit Use and Fraud Vector Risk","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"FBI IC3 Crypto Fraud Report","type":"official","url":"https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/cryptocurrency-and-ai-scams-bilk-americans-of-billions"},{"credibility":1,"name":"$333M Bitcoin ATM scams - ABC News","type":"news_article","url":"https://abcnews.go.com/US/scammers-notched-333-million-bitcoin-atm-scams-2025/story?id=128526877"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Bitcoin ATMs: payment portal for scammers - FTC","type":"official","url":"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2024/09/bitcoin-atms-payment-portal-scammers"}]},{"content":"Bitcoin's protocol has never been hacked, but centralized exchanges holding Bitcoin have repeatedly failed. Mt. Gox handled ~70% of global Bitcoin trades by early 2014. In February 2014 it suspended trading and filed for bankruptcy, disclosing the loss of approximately 850,000 BTC (~$473M at the time). Subsequent failures including FTX (2022) reinforced that custodial counterparties are the primary failure point, not the protocol.","heading":"Exchange Counterparty Risk: Mt. Gox and Historical Failures","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Mt. Gox - Wikipedia","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox"},{"credibility":2,"name":"The History of the Mt Gox Hack - Blockonomi","type":"news_article","url":"https://blockonomi.com/mt-gox-hack/"}]}],"sources_used":[{"credibility":2,"name":"History of Bitcoin - Wikipedia","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin"},{"credibility":1,"name":"SEC Approves Bitcoin ETPs - TechCrunch","type":"news_article","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/sec-approves-spot-bitcoin-etf/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"CFTC/SEC Joint Classification","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9198-26"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Strategic Bitcoin Reserve - White House","type":"official","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi - CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/14/craig-wright-not-satoshi-didnt-author-bitcoin-whitepaper-judge-rules"},{"credibility":1,"name":"FBI IC3 Crypto Fraud Report","type":"official","url":"https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/cryptocurrency-and-ai-scams-bilk-americans-of-billions"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Bitcoin ATM scams - ABC News","type":"news_article","url":"https://abcnews.go.com/US/scammers-notched-333-million-bitcoin-atm-scams-2025/story?id=128526877"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Bitcoin ATMs - FTC","type":"official","url":"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2024/09/bitcoin-atms-payment-portal-scammers"},{"credibility":1,"name":"U.S. EIA - Bitcoin mining electricity","type":"official","url":"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Environmental effects - Nature","type":"research","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-92314-z"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Mining Centralization - Bitcoin Magazine","type":"news_article","url":"https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/bitcoin-mining-centralization-in-the-u-s-a-new-risk-for-the-industry"},{"credibility":1,"name":"51% Attack - Springer Nature","type":"research","url":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40747-026-02256-w"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Mt. Gox - Wikipedia","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Bitcoin Identity Trial - Morgan Lewis","type":"other","url":"https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2024/05/bitcoin-identity-trial-concludes-dr-craig-wright-is-not-the-creator-of-bitcoin"}],"summary":"Bitcoin (BTC) is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, introduced in a 2008 whitepaper by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and launched in January 2009. As of May 2026, it is the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization (~$1.6T), classified as a digital commodity by U.S. regulators, and backed by institutional infrastructure including 11 SEC-approved spot ETFs. Bitcoin's established protocol and regulatory clarity distinguish it from most crypto assets, though it carries material risks including market volatility, mining centralization, illicit-use association, and exchange counterparty exposure.","timeline":[{"date":"2008-10-31","event":"Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper","source":"history.com","source_url":"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-31/satoshi-nakamoto-publishes-a-paper-introducing-bitcoin"},{"date":"2009-01-03","event":"Satoshi Nakamoto mines the Bitcoin genesis block","source":"wikipedia.org","source_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin"},{"date":"2014-02-01","event":"Mt. Gox suspends trading and files for bankruptcy; ~850,000 BTC lost","source":"wikipedia.org","source_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox"},{"date":"2021-09-07","event":"El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal tender","source":"npr.org","source_url":"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034926717/el-salvador-has-adopted-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-the-first-country-to-do-so"},{"date":"2024-01-10","event":"SEC approves 11 spot Bitcoin ETPs","source":"techcrunch.com","source_url":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/sec-approves-spot-bitcoin-etf/"},{"date":"2024-04-20","event":"Fourth Bitcoin halving: block reward reduced to 3.125 BTC","source":"fidelitydigitalassets.com","source_url":"https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/research-and-insights/2024-bitcoin-halving-one-year-later"},{"date":"2025-03-06","event":"President Trump signs executive order establishing U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve","source":"whitehouse.gov","source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/"},{"date":"2025-10-06","event":"Bitcoin reaches all-time high of ~$125,835","source":"yahoo.com","source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-price-surges-time-high-053751894.html"},{"date":"2026-03-17","event":"SEC and CFTC jointly classify Bitcoin as a 'digital commodity'","source":"cftc.gov","source_url":"https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9198-26"}]},"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision 8c6fc91f-8235-46c1-bf56-02393a79dc94 - #2reviewby reviewerreviewer2026-06-04 05:47:25ZScore: 67 → 67 (no score change)The Bitcoin investigation page is broadly accurate on major facts — protocol history, regulatory milestones, and key events are well-sourced and largely correct. The most notable issues are: the market cap figure ($1.6T) overstates May 2026 data by roughly 15-20%; the pool concentration claim (95% from 4-6 pools) overstates actual concentration; the Craig Wright ruling date is given as May 2024 when it was March 2024; and the Bitcoin ATM fraud figure conflates a partial-year number with a full-year YoY stat. The New York mining moratorium is presented as ongoing when it expired November 2024. No claims are fabricated, and the page's core factual spine is defensible.anchoranchored
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{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-04T05:47:25.445Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","new_score":67,"page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":67,"reason":"The Bitcoin investigation page is broadly accurate on major facts — protocol history, regulatory milestones, and key events are well-sourced and largely correct. The most notable issues are: the market cap figure ($1.6T) overstates May 2026 data by roughly 15-20%; the pool concentration claim (95% from 4-6 pools) overstates actual concentration; the Craig Wright ruling date is given as May 2024 when it was March 2024; and the Bitcoin ATM fraud figure conflates a partial-year number with a full-year YoY stat. The New York mining moratorium is presented as ongoing when it expired November 2024. No claims are fabricated, and the page's core factual spine is defensible.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision fd8f7ced-b71c-4bf4-baaa-59ee849536d1 - #3review approveby judgejudge2026-06-04 05:47:25ZScore: 67 → 62 (-5)The review found a disputed_pct of 7%, placing this page within the approve band. Only one claim was outright disputed (claim_findings[6]: May 2026 market cap overstated at ~$1.6T versus sourced range of $1.33–$1.56T), and one claim was marked stale (claim_findings[17]: New York mining moratorium, which expired November 2024 and is no longer in effect). The 11 partially-supported findings reflect minor imprecisions — notably the pool concentration figure in claim_findings[20] (95% overstated; actual top 4–6 pools cover ~65–85%), the Craig Wright ruling date in claim_findings[27] (stated May 2024, actual March 14, 2024), and the SegWit/Taproot phrasing in claim_findings[5] which implies both activated November 2021 when only Taproot did. None of these imprecisions invert a core factual claim or misrepresent protocol fundamentals, and the reviewer's confidence is 0.82. A small score penalty is applied to reflect the stale claim and the cluster of minor imprecisions that warrant correction on next revision.anchoranchored
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{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-04T05:47:25.445Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","new_score":62,"page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":67,"reason":"The review found a disputed_pct of 7%, placing this page within the approve band. Only one claim was outright disputed (claim_findings[6]: May 2026 market cap overstated at ~$1.6T versus sourced range of $1.33–$1.56T), and one claim was marked stale (claim_findings[17]: New York mining moratorium, which expired November 2024 and is no longer in effect). The 11 partially-supported findings reflect minor imprecisions — notably the pool concentration figure in claim_findings[20] (95% overstated; actual top 4–6 pools cover ~65–85%), the Craig Wright ruling date in claim_findings[27] (stated May 2024, actual March 14, 2024), and the SegWit/Taproot phrasing in claim_findings[5] which implies both activated November 2021 when only Taproot did. None of these imprecisions invert a core factual claim or misrepresent protocol fundamentals, and the reviewer's confidence is 0.82. A small score penalty is applied to reflect the stale claim and the cluster of minor imprecisions that warrant correction on next revision.","score_delta":-5,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision 5133b17f-2b77-42f0-a12b-d9fb9aa6b71d - #4reviewby reviewerreviewer2026-10-02 05:42:02ZScore: 62 → 62 (no score change)The page's core historical and regulatory facts (whitepaper date, genesis block, halving schedule, CFTC/SEC classifications, ETF approvals, the Craig Wright rulings, Mt. Gox collapse) are accurate and well-supported by both the page's own citations and independent verification. Two findings are significant and should be corrected: the Bitcoin ATM fraud section states a '58% YoY increase' that directly contradicts the page's own cited ABC News source, which reports 33%; and the Nature-journal citation for the PM2.5/1.9-million-people mining-pollution statistic points to an unrelated Scientific Reports article on energy/water use rather than the actual Nature Communications study that produced that finding (affecting the section prose and two separate source-list entries). Secondary issues include a conflation of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve's size at signing (~198,000 BTC) with its much larger current holdings (~328,372 BTC), an EIA citation whose source article states different energy figures than the page quotes, a stale reference to New York's mining moratorium (expired November 2024, not renewed) presented without that context, and an attribution of the $24.2B illicit-transaction figure jointly to Chainalysis and TRM Labs when it is specifically a Chainalysis estimate. The market cap and renewable-energy-share figures could not be independently pinned down and are marked unverifiable rather than wrong. No accepted community submissions exist for this page, so evidence_review is empty; coverage gaps include on-chain concentration analysis and sanctions/law-enforcement history, both of which fit the platform's stated scope.anchoranchored
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{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"57283959f12945bb25ed42205b934f2d","decided_at":"2026-10-02T05:42:02.401Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.1333,"findings_hash":"8Bt1FYzFRpCxoca7oNBeJjYNtVTKJaGCr6Frv7uoYRer","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","mode":"findings_only","new_score":62,"page_content_hash":"3671190981659b3fd4e9d1af4f042879543c30ec7db69cd9d1fd2e063e1869c3","page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":62,"reason":"The page's core historical and regulatory facts (whitepaper date, genesis block, halving schedule, CFTC/SEC classifications, ETF approvals, the Craig Wright rulings, Mt. Gox collapse) are accurate and well-supported by both the page's own citations and independent verification. Two findings are significant and should be corrected: the Bitcoin ATM fraud section states a '58% YoY increase' that directly contradicts the page's own cited ABC News source, which reports 33%; and the Nature-journal citation for the PM2.5/1.9-million-people mining-pollution statistic points to an unrelated Scientific Reports article on energy/water use rather than the actual Nature Communications study that produced that finding (affecting the section prose and two separate source-list entries). Secondary issues include a conflation of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve's size at signing (~198,000 BTC) with its much larger current holdings (~328,372 BTC), an EIA citation whose source article states different energy figures than the page quotes, a stale reference to New York's mining moratorium (expired November 2024, not renewed) presented without that context, and an attribution of the $24.2B illicit-transaction figure jointly to Chainalysis and TRM Labs when it is specifically a Chainalysis estimate. The market cap and renewable-energy-share figures could not be independently pinned down and are marked unverifiable rather than wrong. No accepted community submissions exist for this page, so evidence_review is empty; coverage gaps include on-chain concentration analysis and sanctions/law-enforcement history, both of which fit the platform's stated scope.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision 295d609a-479b-40bd-a4c1-7e38a833f7cf - #5rescoreby systemsystem2026-10-10 18:50:39ZScore: 62 → 97 (+35)Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 62 → 97. Problems weighed by who is responsible: problems around the subject, caused by others −6.4, concerns that are not fraud −6.4; legitimacy credit well known and widely used +25, long-running +10; fact-check adjustments (−5) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.anchoranchored
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{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-10T18:50:38.863Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","new_score":97,"page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":62,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 62 → 97. Problems weighed by who is responsible: problems around the subject, caused by others −6.4, concerns that are not fraud −6.4; legitimacy credit well known and widely used +25, long-running +10; fact-check adjustments (−5) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.","score_delta":35,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision c932870c-6bf8-4dae-9606-06fba6cedf73 - #6reviewby reviewerreviewer2026-10-27 19:27:23ZScore: 97 → 97 (no score change)Most checked claims hold, but the Price Volatility section dates the $126k record to 'late 2026' when it occurred in October 2025, and cites an arXiv paper that cannot support 2026 prices. The 97% Bitcoin share of ransomware payments is not in the cited Chainalysis page. The FBI ATM figure covers only part of the year. Several other sections were not verified.anchoranchored
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{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"98da6efb782d9e277129a5d29cc781cc","decided_at":"2026-10-27T19:27:22.844Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.3333,"findings_hash":"HStivzERF96EZ5PNjhgoqF8LiVQnHhwoZBsoETZwatr9","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","judge_def_hash":"8800307026131ea9d5da939d32b9a1f1884b2b84a5de33c8e87931d36f38d0f8","new_score":97,"omissions":{"material":0,"total":1},"page_content_hash":"8171ce924d015dd94caefd0e09e4f88a407c801e70b8f30d95c41e765e5e8836","page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":97,"reason":"Most checked claims hold, but the Price Volatility section dates the $126k record to 'late 2026' when it occurred in October 2025, and cites an arXiv paper that cannot support 2026 prices. The 97% Bitcoin share of ransomware payments is not in the cited Chainalysis page. The FBI ATM figure covers only part of the year. Several other sections were not verified.","reviewer_def_hash":"bc11388ce4bc4deea1b064fea362663ae06e3f4f687f99604769044d6ffba770","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":6,"subject_status":"operating","subject_status_contradicts_page":false,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision 48dee2b8-b559-46ea-8541-c14da6c1387c - #7review reviseby judgejudge2026-10-27 19:27:23ZScore: 97 → 97 (no score change)Of 9 claims checked, 1 was disputed and 2 could not be verified (3 of 9, about 33%), which falls in the significant-issues band. claim_findings[0] is wrong: the page dates the $126,000 record to late 2026, but it occurred in October 2025, and the cited arXiv paper cannot support 2026 prices. claim_findings[3] could not be confirmed because the cited Chainalysis page has no 97% Bitcoin share, and claim_findings[8] (the March 2026 SEC/CFTC release) was not fetched. The penalty is kept at the mild end of the band because reviewer confidence is 0.5, one unverifiable finding reflects reviewer time rather than a source contradiction, the omission is minor, and the subject is operating normally. The core ransomware-payment and sanctions figures were confirmed.anchoranchored
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{"actor":"judge","artifact_identity":"98da6efb782d9e277129a5d29cc781cc","band_override":null,"decided_at":"2026-10-27T19:27:22.844Z","decision":"review_revise","delist_requested":false,"disputed_pct":0.3333,"investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","judge_def_hash":"8800307026131ea9d5da939d32b9a1f1884b2b84a5de33c8e87931d36f38d0f8","new_score":97,"page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":97,"reason":"Of 9 claims checked, 1 was disputed and 2 could not be verified (3 of 9, about 33%), which falls in the significant-issues band. claim_findings[0] is wrong: the page dates the $126,000 record to late 2026, but it occurred in October 2025, and the cited arXiv paper cannot support 2026 prices. claim_findings[3] could not be confirmed because the cited Chainalysis page has no 97% Bitcoin share, and claim_findings[8] (the March 2026 SEC/CFTC release) was not fetched. The penalty is kept at the mild end of the band because reviewer confidence is 0.5, one unverifiable finding reflects reviewer time rather than a source contradiction, the omission is minor, and the subject is operating normally. The core ransomware-payment and sanctions figures were confirmed.","reviewer_def_hash":"bc11388ce4bc4deea1b064fea362663ae06e3f4f687f99604769044d6ffba770","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision 25f173bf-8fe9-4bb7-9f36-df76e52e7750
How verification works. The “Row integrity” check above is computed in your browser — your machine recomputes the SHA-256 of the canonical bytes and compares against the stored hash. No avoid.net server can fake that check. The “full verify” link goes one level deeper: your browser fetches the on-chain transaction from a Solana RPC node and confirms the same hash is in the memo. If you don’t want to trust either avoid.net or the public RPC, run the CLI verifier on your own machine —
python -m src.verify_decision <event_id>.