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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · Bitcoin
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
67 → 67 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
424183200
Off-chain at
2026-06-04T05:47:25.642Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
AiLmNX23QFnKfQw7KHvh29JfdZsFkezf9tPvPp7JuVzR
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1017 chars)
{"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}