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Proof: Account for the old economy before selling us a new one - Kojo Oppong Nkrumah writes

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23d7a8e5c92647b5f29823471f4658051d2a02805424a433568a4400addd0d10

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-23d7a8e5c926.json prints 23d7a8e5c92647b5f29823471f4658051d2a02805424a433568a4400addd0d10. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-23d7a8e5c926.json and headline-23d7a8e5c926.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-23d7a8e5c926.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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