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Proof: Two critically injured after car ploughs into crowd of Newcastle Knights supporters

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T02:01:55Z","headline":"Two critically injured after car ploughs into crowd of Newcastle Knights supporters","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcau","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-03/newcastle-knights-car-crash-wallsend-injuries/107224666","v":1}

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d79798029402c3c8d3910dd27a88a10bd2fdc89afb8beea7f473094d0a495ea5

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969656, mined 2026-10-03 02:16 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d79798029402.json prints d79798029402c3c8d3910dd27a88a10bd2fdc89afb8beea7f473094d0a495ea5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-d79798029402.json and headline-d79798029402.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-d79798029402.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.

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