← the record

Proof: Trump adds $3.2 billion Alabama bridge to long list of things he’d like named after him

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T02:21:31Z","headline":"Trump adds $3.2 billion Alabama bridge to long list of things he’d like named after him","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-alabama-bridge-rally-b3060709.html","v":1}

Download headline-6ee296aa50a3.json

SHA-256

6ee296aa50a3615766426dfb3e3c6ede862ec33c9737d01e73de5813bf218e25

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969659, mined 2026-10-03 02:32 UTC.

Download headline-6ee296aa50a3.json.ots

Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 02:25 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 02:25 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-6ee296aa50a3.json prints 6ee296aa50a3615766426dfb3e3c6ede862ec33c9737d01e73de5813bf218e25. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-6ee296aa50a3.json and headline-6ee296aa50a3.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-6ee296aa50a3.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.