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Proof: Should Green Party leader Zack Polanski stand down?

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T19:10:47Z","headline":"Should Green Party leader Zack Polanski stand down?","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"channel4","url":"https://www.channel4.com/news/should-green-party-leader-zack-polanski-stand-down","v":1}

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SHA-256

0e31a3645e24ba8250bd9fb5592f324483fa21fb44f72c211cb983cbd21f409a

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970675, mined 2026-10-09 20:14 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 19:19 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 19:19 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0e31a3645e24.json prints 0e31a3645e24ba8250bd9fb5592f324483fa21fb44f72c211cb983cbd21f409a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0e31a3645e24.json and headline-0e31a3645e24.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-0e31a3645e24.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.