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Proof: Flávio Bolsonaro poised to win Brazilian presidency after shock first-round victory

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T20:00:43Z","headline":"Flávio Bolsonaro poised to win Brazilian presidency after shock first-round victory","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/flavio-bolsonaro-brazilian-presidency-election-shock-first-round-victory","v":1}

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SHA-256

76cc5d0c69c6950daae770881f2da4259ff7245e9c6026b4ecf5b187e914320f

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970074, mined 2026-10-05 20:11 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:18 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-76cc5d0c69c6.json prints 76cc5d0c69c6950daae770881f2da4259ff7245e9c6026b4ecf5b187e914320f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-76cc5d0c69c6.json and headline-76cc5d0c69c6.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-76cc5d0c69c6.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.