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Proof: Brazil’s presidential race to go to second round as Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Lula

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T00:32:05Z","headline":"Brazil’s presidential race to go to second round as Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Lula","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/brazil-presidential-race-election-result-second-round-lula-flavio-bolsonaro","v":1}

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SHA-256

249dcb5eb831c1c8a115c8f4c0d599fb59183c3ca50d225653ff9594627a0c0e

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969928, mined 2026-10-05 00:43 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:55 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:44 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-249dcb5eb831.json prints 249dcb5eb831c1c8a115c8f4c0d599fb59183c3ca50d225653ff9594627a0c0e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-249dcb5eb831.json and headline-249dcb5eb831.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-249dcb5eb831.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, 5 min after it was first seen.