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Proof: Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T20:11:05Z","headline":"Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"bbc","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm1dwgr666wno","v":1}

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SHA-256

aee1720662c8f635ef9cfa29b6233985a0619489f954fc6c6f1aec0b2e3bd608

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970676, mined 2026-10-09 20:26 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-10 00:06 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-10 00:07 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-aee1720662c8.json prints aee1720662c8f635ef9cfa29b6233985a0619489f954fc6c6f1aec0b2e3bd608. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-aee1720662c8.json and headline-aee1720662c8.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-aee1720662c8.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, 1 min after it was first seen.