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Proof: Trump deploys 2,000 Marines to Middle East, supertanker struck in Hormuz

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-02T00:02:23Z","headline":"Trump deploys 2,000 Marines to Middle East, supertanker struck in Hormuz","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"aljazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/2/iran-war-live-us-moves-2000-marines-to-middle-east-tanker-hit-in-hormuz","v":1}

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5fb61c38db262da949708d2dd51f5fb3e10c9269378c38e81f785436a4dfb4f1

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969510, mined 2026-10-02 00:47 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 00:07 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 00:09 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5fb61c38db26.json prints 5fb61c38db262da949708d2dd51f5fb3e10c9269378c38e81f785436a4dfb4f1. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5fb61c38db26.json and headline-5fb61c38db26.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-5fb61c38db26.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.