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Proof: Trump promised to lower prices for Americans. Here's what the data shows.

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fac7cce16853efd66ab2ba10e905be7186b55d5699867c4f9a60c6f8cf7704bc

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970662, mined 2026-10-09 17:21 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-fac7cce16853.json prints fac7cce16853efd66ab2ba10e905be7186b55d5699867c4f9a60c6f8cf7704bc. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-fac7cce16853.json and headline-fac7cce16853.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-fac7cce16853.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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