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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_approve · Bitcoin
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#3
Score
67 → 62 (-5)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
424183203
Off-chain at
2026-06-04T05:47:25.711Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
7JJsd665H2z8nfWjuJxTucWQzR23akXkx639eJ7JmDhL
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1368 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-04T05:47:25.445Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"9f5fde42-7cff-4a97-a8c9-369d119c884c","new_score":62,"page_slug":"bitcoin","prev_score":67,"reason":"The review found a disputed_pct of 7%, placing this page within the approve band. Only one claim was outright disputed (claim_findings[6]: May 2026 market cap overstated at ~$1.6T versus sourced range of $1.33–$1.56T), and one claim was marked stale (claim_findings[17]: New York mining moratorium, which expired November 2024 and is no longer in effect). The 11 partially-supported findings reflect minor imprecisions — notably the pool concentration figure in claim_findings[20] (95% overstated; actual top 4–6 pools cover ~65–85%), the Craig Wright ruling date in claim_findings[27] (stated May 2024, actual March 14, 2024), and the SegWit/Taproot phrasing in claim_findings[5] which implies both activated November 2021 when only Taproot did. None of these imprecisions invert a core factual claim or misrepresent protocol fundamentals, and the reviewer's confidence is 0.82. A small score penalty is applied to reflect the stale claim and the cluster of minor imprecisions that warrant correction on next revision.","score_delta":-5,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}