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Proof: Conservatives pitch £10 billion missile defence system for UK

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T19:03:01Z","headline":"Conservatives pitch £10 billion missile defence system for UK","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"channel4","url":"https://www.channel4.com/news/conservatives-pitch-10-billion-missile-defence-system-for-uk","v":1}

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SHA-256

0be45eb58d6ad4f710e6e43efea4fa12870e0e1293f9f3c7f447c2b23937b8f3

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970218, mined 2026-10-06 19:19 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 19:10 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 19:10 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0be45eb58d6a.json prints 0be45eb58d6ad4f710e6e43efea4fa12870e0e1293f9f3c7f447c2b23937b8f3. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0be45eb58d6a.json and headline-0be45eb58d6a.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-0be45eb58d6a.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, 4 min after it was first seen.