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Proof: What France's student protesters want – and what the government is offering

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f9e159617f422806a34a8499ca7d2df8416556b73515620bf27d55ce7df30bad

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f9e159617f42.json prints f9e159617f422806a34a8499ca7d2df8416556b73515620bf27d55ce7df30bad. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f9e159617f42.json and headline-f9e159617f42.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-f9e159617f42.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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