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- Imprecision
- 5
- Missing context
- 1
- Attribution
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- Retraction
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- Claim verdicts changed
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Corrections to pieces and the Data Desk2
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- Bitcoin Owes No Interest. Its Largest Holder Owes $1.76 Billion a Year. The Price of Money Just Rose.
Factual error ·
LinkStory · published
- What we said
- It is 18.3 percent below that today and has gone 311 days without a new one.
- What the record shows
- On the day this was published, 18 September 2026, the difficulty had gone 323 days without a new all-time high, not 311. The high was set by the adjustment at height 921,312 at 10:14 UTC on 29 October 2025; the elapsed figure reached 324 days on 19 September. The 18.3 percent shortfall, the height and the date of the high were all correct.
- How it happened
- The desk measured the gap between the all-time-high adjustment and the most recent adjustment, on 5 September 2026, and printed that interval as elapsed days. Difficulty adjusts roughly every two weeks, so the figure was stale by the age of the current epoch, thirteen days at publication. The error understated the paper's own argument. It was caught the following morning while recomputing every stretch between successive difficulty highs from genesis for a separate mining piece.
- The BLAKE2b Fork’s Early Issuance Ran About Nine Times Bitcoin’s Target Pace.
Factual error ·
LinkStory · published
- What we said
- The story called September 2 a Tuesday and described August 8 as enforcement of the BIP110 data restrictions. It also treated the last pre-BLAKE2b height, 961,639, as the end of all shared history with the majority chain.
- What the record shows
- September 2, 2026 was Wednesday. BIP110 specified mandatory signaling at heights 961,632–963,647, lock-in at 963,648 and full activation at 965,664. The August split preceded the later BLAKE2b change at 961,640; the minority chain’s last SHA-256d height is not the end of all shared history with the majority chain.
- How it happened
- SG conflated mandatory signaling with full transaction-rule activation, and the later algorithm-change boundary with the earlier chain split. The calendar weekday was not checked separately.
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Claim verdicts that changed1
- “The United States left the gold standard in 1971.”
· Evidence revised · verdict unchanged (Oversimplified)
LinkThe first public worked example was not ledger-derived and linked Executive Order 6102 to 1 FR 1, an unrelated 1936 Federal Register page. This reviewed row replaces that citation with the order text, removes the unsupported 1974 restoration assertion, preserves the order's explicit exceptions, and replaces the seeded identifier with the deterministic ledger id.
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