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How to verify votes cast by VSP #894

Open xaur opened 5 years ago

xaur commented 5 years ago

Idea:

Write "How to verify votes cast by VSP" guide that explains how to check that VSP is voting correctly on behalf of the user.

Seen this topic mentioned a few times. Not much. What do you think, is it often asked?

xaur commented 5 years ago

If this is written, cover all ways to do it:

  1. via dcrdata block explorer. Add explicit privacy warning that the server can record IP address, date and ticket id queried.
  2. via Decrediton, if it has any features to check how ticket voted (not using this wallet so can't tell)
  3. via command line - how to locate the transaction spending the ticket, and analyze its vote. Might require enabling transaction index on dcrd.
jholdstock commented 5 years ago

We have a section about this already, but it could definitely be improved and it doesn't cover any decrediton/cli options.

https://docs.decred.org/governance/consensus-rule-voting/consensus-rules-voting/#verifying-your-vote

xaur commented 5 years ago

Ah didn't know that.

That section needs an update - it links to dcrdata but shows screenshot from Insight.

jholdstock commented 5 years ago

907 starts to deal with this, but there is still room for improvement. The section for verifying using the CLI could use a proper explanation for how to manually decode votebits. jrick suggests walking the reader through an example.

Also I am tempted to tag the page with "Last updated for decrediton 1.x" so this can be reviewed when a new version of decrediton is released, which hopefully includes decred/decrediton#2081