What makes a record checkable

A timestamp created before the event by something outside the publisher's control. Anything else records only what the publisher chose to record, whenever they chose to record it.

Publishing after the fact is the default state of every record. Without an external time anchor there is no way to distinguish a pick made at noon from one written down at midnight with the result already known.

Perfect anchoring is not required. A message in a public channel with a platform timestamp is far weaker than a blockchain commitment and vastly stronger than a screenshot, and it is usually enough.

Which is where it goes wrong. Almost every published record fails this test entirely, and the ones that pass tend to say so at length — because the anchoring is the difficult part and the part worth advertising.

What to do with it. Ask what created the timestamp, and whether the publisher could have changed it. If the answer is yes, treat the record as unverified.

Check one. The tipster record checker takes a claimed record and its usual price, and shows the break-even rate and how often luck alone would produce that record.