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- Imprecision
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- 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 Desk5
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- Network fee estimates
Imprecision ·
LinkData Desk
- What we said
- The network pages and the ticker showed fee rates such as “1 sat/vB” when the network would clear lower. On 30 September the page read 1 sat/vB for the economy fee, which mempool.space’s precise estimate put at 0.20 sat/vB, and the fee ladder drew every rate as the same full bar.
- What the record shows
- Fee rates are now read from mempool.space’s precise estimate and printed to two decimals under 10 sat/vB, so the economy fee that read 1 reads 0.20. mempool.space’s whole-number recommendation is no longer shown.
- How it happened
- The desk read mempool.space’s /v1/fees/recommended endpoint, which reports whole sat/vB and never less than 1, so every rate under 1 sat/vB printed as 1. The review compared the page with that same endpoint, so the check agreed with the error instead of catching it.
- Three Pool Labels Built 57.6% of Last Week’s Bitcoin Blocks
Imprecision ·
LinkStory · published
- What we said
- pool attribution measures coordination, not miner ownership
- What the record shows
- Pool attribution shows a coordination surface, the pools that assemble block templates. It does not show that miners coordinate, or who owns them, as the Story's chart caption and its sixth paragraph say.
- How it happened
- The deck shortened the Story's 'visible coordination surface' to 'measures coordination', and the review did not set the deck against the chart caption, which until 30 September showed only as the image's alt text.
- Warsh Says Money Matters. M2 Rose 0.89% From May to July
Imprecision ·
LinkStory · published
- What we said
- a 204.1 billion increase, or 0.8868 percent
- What the record shows
- 204.1 billion dollars over May's 23,013.9 billion is 0.886855 percent, which is 0.8869 percent to four places. The headline's 0.89 percent and the annualized 5.32 and 5.44 percent were right.
- How it happened
- The four-place figure was cut instead of rounded when the paragraph was written, and the review checked the headline's two-place figure, not the four-place one.
- Bitcoin Knots 29.4.1 Ships the BLAKE2b Hard Fork as a Final Release
Imprecision ·
LinkWire · published
- What we said
- The Wire said the new SIGHASH_UNIFIED signature format was something "only the fork's own software supports today".
- What the record shows
- The Knots 29.4.1 release notes say only that third-party wallets may require upgrades to remain compatible; they do not state that only Knots supports SIGHASH_UNIFIED and name no wallet list either way. An operator page lists two patched third-party wallet builds dated 31 August, described as unaudited. SG had not verified any compatibility list before publication.
- How it happened
- SG extended the release's compatibility caveat into a claim about all other software without checking wallet support, the same overreach withdrawn from the companion Story on 6 September.
- The BLAKE2b Fork’s Early Issuance Ran About Nine Times Bitcoin’s Target Pace.
Imprecision ·
LinkStory · published
- What we said
- The headline and copy presented nine-times issuance as current and described the measurement as beginning at a difficulty reset. The story also compared the chains’ raw difficulty numbers across different proof-of-work algorithms without establishing a meaningful security comparison.
- What the record shows
- The retained operator observations cover August 30–September 2: 4,064 height increments in about 77.2 hours, about 8.8 times Bitcoin’s ten-minute target pace. The interval includes two adjustments. This is faster calendar-time issuance, not evidence of a higher eventual subsidy cap; halvings remain height-based. Cross-algorithm difficulty numbers do not establish relative economic attack costs. The title and deck now identify the historical window.
- How it happened
- SG mislabeled a cumulative observation window, failed to distinguish issuance timing from the height-based subsidy schedule, and juxtaposed incommensurate difficulty figures without the hardware and cost evidence a security comparison requires.
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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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