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_approve · Bitcoin Cash
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 54 → 54 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425404572
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T20:57:17.119Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- JUBqtNByJqL87czpNtJksmiD7rXpBH8PpY22Zc92hcj
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1289 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-09T20:57:16.958Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"8c877e8f-1a57-4cf1-8d04-a1c667f6f1ca","new_score":54,"page_slug":"bitcoin-cash","prev_score":54,"reason":"The reviewer found zero outright disputed claims across 30 checked. All eight partially_supported findings are minor editorial issues: claim_findings[7] incorrectly labels Gary Gensler as 'then-SEC Chairman' in 2018 when he held that title only from 2021; claim_findings[27] misplaces the Cory Fields bug in the 2018 hash war section when it actually occurred six months earlier in April-May 2018; claim_findings[32] states BCH ranked approximately #14 by market cap when current rankings suggest #17-22. Three unverifiable findings (trading halt duration, fee comparison figures, price point precision) involve peripheral supporting details, not core allegations. No link rot, no stale critical citations, and reviewer confidence is 0.82. Coverage gaps are all medium or low priority and indicate expansion opportunities rather than accuracy deficiencies. The page holds up on every substantive historical, regulatory, and legal claim.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}