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Proof: How Dangote IPO is building new routes for African investors into Nigeria

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T03:32:19Z","headline":"How Dangote IPO is building new routes for African investors into Nigeria","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"businessday","url":"https://businessday.ng/africa/article/how-dangote-ipo-is-building-new-routes-for-african-investors-into-nigeria/","v":1}

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a70c05b491fd8f92ca0a0b123b7506dc80d17abd7d51cc50e750c2e5aadc0afc

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

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 03:37 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 03:37 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a70c05b491fd.json prints a70c05b491fd8f92ca0a0b123b7506dc80d17abd7d51cc50e750c2e5aadc0afc. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a70c05b491fd.json and headline-a70c05b491fd.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-a70c05b491fd.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, 5 min after it was first seen.