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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 Depot
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
8 → 8 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443561966
Off-chain at
2026-09-02T00:40:21.154Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
5oYRDmC3DbLxM8DSrjkU8DQE3tXz2Xz5bTYjQBP9xsaS
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1418 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"91e8872bb00e119e17b46fddee84154a","decided_at":"2026-09-02T00:40:21.049Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2,"investigation_id":"87fee4fc-b081-4a85-ad3e-38fe6be61b29","new_score":8,"page_slug":"bitcoin-depot","prev_score":8,"reason":"The page's core narrative — a large crypto-ATM operator facing coordinated state enforcement over fraud facilitation, followed by leadership turnover and Chapter 11 collapse — is well supported by primary regulatory sources (AG complaints, DFI/DOB orders) and independent trade press, with most granular statistics (transaction counts, dollar figures, dates) verified as accurate. However, three findings warrant correction: the summary overstates the two named lawsuits as alleging 'hundreds of millions' in fraud when the actual complaints total roughly $30M combined; the fee-range claim (15-30%) understates the 15-50% range actually alleged in the cited Massachusetts complaint; and the timeline's claim that Bitcoin Depot 'enters a period without a permanent CEO' after Buchanan's March 2026 resignation is factually wrong, since Alex Holmes was immediately appointed CEO and Chairman. A data-breach timeline entry also contains an apparent one-year date error (2023 vs. the confirmed 2024).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}