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 · Rodney Burton (Bitcoin Rodney)
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 2 → 0 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505284
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T01:24:53.824Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- F3yV1vDUVaBQsMMBx3oQazBPHvyiWLEzQ3o8rouDSWSk
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1256 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T01:24:53.617Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"f1fb8895-cb0c-4b69-8659-eb1ab81c5a6a","new_score":0,"page_slug":"rodney-burton-bitcoin-rodney","prev_score":2,"reason":"The reviewer assessed 26 claims and found 16 confirmed by credible sources. The computed disputed_pct of 15.4% (4 claims disputed or unverifiable out of 26) places this page in the minor-revision band. The sole outright disputed finding is a low-severity date error: claim_findings[4] shows the superseding indictment is timestamped 2025-01-01 in the timeline but was filed December 12, 2025, confirmed by two Tier 2 sources. Additionally, two high-priority coverage gaps identified by the reviewer — the absence of the July 23, 2026 sentencing outcome (which has now passed) and Sam Lee's unresolved extradition posture — push the penalty toward the midpoint of the band. Core legal claims including the guilty plea, charge details, scheme mechanics, arrest circumstances, and co-defendant statuses are all well-supported; no link rot or source staleness was found on critical citations.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}