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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 · MiningMax
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 2 → 0 (-8)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423516473
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-01T04:08:37.020Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8f8QfkJEXjayz7shAvVdyWVVxwPog7J71fT8yufg22YV
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1471 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-01T04:08:36.738Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"cb7cc964-8424-4df9-92c6-eecc3b6da661","new_score":0,"page_slug":"miningmax","prev_score":2,"reason":"All 22 core claims — including the $250 million fraud total, 18,000 victims across 54 countries, 21 indictments, Interpol listings, and the California DFPI Desist and Refrain Order — are confirmed against Tier 1 and Tier 2 primary sources. However, the review identified four partially-supported claims and one editorial inconsistency that warrant revision: the offshore transfer figure appears as ~$92.8M (100 billion won, Korea Herald) in sections[0] and $110M in sections[6], creating an internal inconsistency the page does not explain (claim_findings[11] and claim_findings[27]); the characterization that MiningMax 'developed and deployed software designed to simulate mining activity' is a reasonable inference but not confirmed verbatim in any primary source (claim_findings[12]); and the CoinTelegraph citation for the sentencing claim returns HTTP 404, constituting link rot on the only source for that section (claim_findings[26]). A high-priority coverage gap on post-2017 fugitive and conviction outcomes also warrants a follow-up expansion. No claims were affirmatively contradicted by a more credible source.","score_delta":-8,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}