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Proof: Emotion, tears as Messi retires from international football

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T03:50:11Z","headline":"Emotion, tears as Messi retires from international football","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"batimes","url":"https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/sports/emotion-tears-as-messi-retires-from-argentina-national-team.phtml","v":1}

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f6265b12c8443c60284cae9b3d7db6d36e9f795689454ccc89f0c08b63c80fef

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970286, mined 2026-10-07 04:11 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 03:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 03:50 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f6265b12c844.json prints f6265b12c8443c60284cae9b3d7db6d36e9f795689454ccc89f0c08b63c80fef. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f6265b12c844.json and headline-f6265b12c844.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-f6265b12c844.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, 2 min after it was first seen.