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Proof: Nearly 500,000 people protest in Madrid over Spain's housing crisis

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T19:41:40Z","headline":"Nearly 500,000 people protest in Madrid over Spain's housing crisis","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"euronews","url":"https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/03/nearly-500000-people-protest-in-madrid-over-spains-housing-crisis","v":1}

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ac4cf69cad5ab96b67b9d3bcddf41558abfe4121b667554d64e628829fd27dc6

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969762, mined 2026-10-03 21:11 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 19:42 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 19:43 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ac4cf69cad5a.json prints ac4cf69cad5ab96b67b9d3bcddf41558abfe4121b667554d64e628829fd27dc6. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ac4cf69cad5a.json and headline-ac4cf69cad5a.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-ac4cf69cad5a.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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