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Proof: Young girl critical as car hits grand final gathering, injuring 10

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T02:52:08Z","headline":"Young girl critical as car hits grand final gathering, injuring 10","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcau","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-03/newcastle-crash-wallsend-knights/107224796","v":1}

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SHA-256

89c4670a02f5e88accb058df9fa7aac3b284ce4cd5ecc9075ec8f2d30ac6327e

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969665, mined 2026-10-03 03:15 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 02:57 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:57 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-89c4670a02f5.json prints 89c4670a02f5e88accb058df9fa7aac3b284ce4cd5ecc9075ec8f2d30ac6327e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-89c4670a02f5.json and headline-89c4670a02f5.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-89c4670a02f5.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.