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Proof: China's railway passenger trips surpass 250 million as National Day holiday ends

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T04:30:42Z","headline":"China's railway passenger trips surpass 250 million as National Day holiday ends","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"globaltimes","url":"https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202610/1371746.shtml","v":1}

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26b8870f48a22a7cf494a5a820a6048db99ce411554a8c99132bc2a2b7c7daaf

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970292, mined 2026-10-07 04:57 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-26b8870f48a2.json prints 26b8870f48a22a7cf494a5a820a6048db99ce411554a8c99132bc2a2b7c7daaf. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-26b8870f48a2.json and headline-26b8870f48a2.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-26b8870f48a2.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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