POCKET Day 8: What if the confirmation comes from a new confirmation bot?


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How to decide whether to trust confirmation bots

You may have noticed that there's another confirmation bot in town: @tech-pocket. I am not running this bot; it was deployed by a community member. Sometimes it's the only bot that confirms a transaction, sometimes it doesn't confirm a transaction, and sometimes you'll see both @pocket-a and @tech-pocket confirm a transaction. Who's right?

I've programmed @pocket-a to upvote confirmations that it agrees with. Technically, @pocket-a will upvote the confirmation that gets the fee from each transaction (except its own). This is true if the confirmation bot is called @tech-pocket or if it's called @imadirtyliar or anything else. If the content of the confirmation is right, it'll get an upvote from @pocket-a. If you see a confirmation that doesn't get an upvote from @pocket-a or another known bot, be wary. There could be something funny afoot.

If you see two confirmations on a transaction, it could be that both bots were racing and submitted at the same time; when this is the case, you can always compare the two confirmations to see if they're different. If the details are the same, then probably everything is fine. If you find discrepancies, then one of the bots has a problem with its database.

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