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Proof: How FIFA shielded ineligible DR Congo player in Nigeria World Cup qualifier – Report

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T21:51:43Z","headline":"How FIFA shielded ineligible DR Congo player in Nigeria World Cup qualifier – Report","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"businessday","url":"https://businessday.ng/sports/article/how-fifa-shielded-ineligible-dr-congo-player-in-nigeria-world-cup-qualifier-report/","v":1}

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SHA-256

0646f6ee37f3c9ad70e397b32ed02e23123f0e5e6528b963f21fa34fd87536a0

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970241, mined 2026-10-06 22:02 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 22:09 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 21:52 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0646f6ee37f3.json prints 0646f6ee37f3c9ad70e397b32ed02e23123f0e5e6528b963f21fa34fd87536a0. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0646f6ee37f3.json and headline-0646f6ee37f3.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-0646f6ee37f3.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.