Verify a decision
Every moderation decision on AVOID.NET is anchored to the Solana blockchain. You don't have to trust us — you can verify cryptographically that we committed to a verdict at a specific moment and have not rewritten it.
How verification works
- We commit. When a moderator accepts/rejects a submission, we serialize the decision into deterministic UTF-8 bytes (
payload_canonical_string), hash it with SHA-256, encode the digest as base58, and write it to Solana inside an SPL Memo v2 transaction. - We store the bytes. The exact bytes we hashed are stored alongside the decision in our database. Anyone can read them and recompute the hash in any language.
- You compare three values. Database hash, your independently-recomputed hash, and the hash inside the on-chain memo. If all three match, the decision is authentic and timestamped.
The on-chain memo format is
AVOID.NET|v1|h:<b58-sha256>|d:<id>|t:<iso>Find a signature on any investigation page's decision log, or run python -m src.verify_decision --signature <sig> for a CLI check.
Decision
review_revise · Donald Basile / Bitcoin Latinum (BTCL)
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 3 → 0 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505892
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T04:06:26.044Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 25nNXT5z4zWF2asC91Y3eJGDUFjqA5KUQFrnoNLBtBk5
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1455 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T04:06:25.870Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"9ec13dfb-edc3-4d97-8d15-90dbcd780c2f","new_score":0,"page_slug":"donald-basile-bitcoin-latinum-btcl","prev_score":3,"reason":"The page's core fraud narrative — the April 2026 SEC action, the $16 million SAFT offering, the phantom insurance and trust allegations, and the Jonna civil litigation — is confirmed by multiple Tier 1 sources and holds up well. However, claim_findings[18] establishes a material factual error: Basile is characterized as a co-founder of Fusion-io when Fusion-io was co-founded by David Flynn and Rick White in 2005; Basile joined as an outside chairman in 2006. Additionally, the Assofi lawsuit (sections[4]) is presented in present tense without noting that the case was reportedly dismissed without prejudice by stipulation — a high-priority coverage gap per the reviewer. Secondary issues include an off-by-one in the LTNM fundraising period in the summary (2020 vs. the correct 2021), a stale bracelet count for Phil Hellmuth (16 not 17), and a minor date discrepancy on Basile's Violin Memory board departure. No status change is warranted; the page should be revised to correct the co-founder claim, update the Assofi case status, and reconcile the summary fundraising date.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}