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Proof: Politics crack Tinubu as discounted petrol returns

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T04:00:24Z","headline":"Politics crack Tinubu as discounted petrol returns","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"businessday","url":"https://businessday.ng/news/article/politics-crack-tinubu-as-discounted-petrol-returns/","v":1}

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SHA-256

0e2209f17c694b094145259bcec86d0e72989d0343e2430bded700a86164d873

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970582, mined 2026-10-09 04:29 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 04:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 04:02 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0e2209f17c69.json prints 0e2209f17c694b094145259bcec86d0e72989d0343e2430bded700a86164d873. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0e2209f17c69.json and headline-0e2209f17c69.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-0e2209f17c69.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.