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Proof: Shaggy’s viral interview spotlights Caribbean music’s foothold in radio

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T04:50:49Z","headline":"Shaggy’s viral interview spotlights Caribbean music’s foothold in radio","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"gleaner","url":"https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20261005/shaggys-viral-interview-spotlights-caribbean-musics-foothold-radio","v":1}

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489e07013cee8182f3d6de244c1190349fe67bf81820d61cda72de2897145217

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970137, mined 2026-10-06 05:50 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 04:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 01:29 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-489e07013cee.json prints 489e07013cee8182f3d6de244c1190349fe67bf81820d61cda72de2897145217. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-489e07013cee.json and headline-489e07013cee.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-489e07013cee.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.