Satoshi Gazette
Glossary

Claim status

The verdict a claim in Claims Under Review carries: verified, true but imprecisely stated, oversimplified, contested, unsupported, false or unresolved.

Definition dated

also verdict · claim verdict

A claim may be marked verified, verified with precision or false only when at least one primary record supports that verdict. Commentary, however respected, never settles a factual claim. A claim may stay unresolved until the strongest opposing account has been recorded, or the search for one has come back empty.

Each verdict is dated; a status change is recorded as a correction on the claim and every published piece that relied on it is re-checked. The claim page shows the whole verdict history.

The categories exist so that "false" and "imprecisely stated" are never confused, because the reader needs to know which one they were told.