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Proof: Parti Québécois to form minority government in Quebec, setting up referendum fight

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T04:50:49Z","headline":"Parti Québécois to form minority government in Quebec, setting up referendum fight","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"globeandmail","url":"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-provincial-quebec-election-winner-parti-quebecois/","v":1}

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ac0006a79f223d60e7a6033400308b8845bcc626c37ef4424ab92264ce1f840b

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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 01:32 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ac0006a79f22.json prints ac0006a79f223d60e7a6033400308b8845bcc626c37ef4424ab92264ce1f840b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ac0006a79f22.json and headline-ac0006a79f22.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-ac0006a79f22.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.