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Proof: 7,825 victims, N7.78bn ransom: Inside Nigeria’s growing kidnap-for-ransom economy

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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776abeab493decf4ff822699d883f84228a42f61f738de881a810d23711ab13b

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970120, mined 2026-10-06 03:03 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 02:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-776abeab493d.json prints 776abeab493decf4ff822699d883f84228a42f61f738de881a810d23711ab13b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-776abeab493d.json and headline-776abeab493d.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-776abeab493d.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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