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Proof: Nigeria records 63 deaths, loses N34.8bn to military air crashes in five years

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T04:01:48Z","headline":"Nigeria records 63 deaths, loses N34.8bn to military air crashes in five years","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"businessday","url":"https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigeria-records-63-deaths-nine-military-air-crashes-in-five-years/","v":1}

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SHA-256

a53c36751270d1a9f86fa794fd07c1b683e8c8d1f3c887f535a026a279aa6ed4

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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 04:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:02 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a53c36751270.json prints a53c36751270d1a9f86fa794fd07c1b683e8c8d1f3c887f535a026a279aa6ed4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a53c36751270.json and headline-a53c36751270.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-a53c36751270.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.