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Proof: Putin pal responds to Trump’s claim that Don Jr. paid him back for wedding

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T02:11:03Z","headline":"Putin pal responds to Trump’s claim that Don Jr. paid him back for wedding","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-wedding-russia-umar-kremlev-oligarch-b3062464.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

ff1d362bbc807235744f542c5fd87d78eaa8d77a079535703150e3d9c40ca8a6

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970275, mined 2026-10-07 02:46 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 02:13 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 02:13 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ff1d362bbc80.json prints ff1d362bbc807235744f542c5fd87d78eaa8d77a079535703150e3d9c40ca8a6. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ff1d362bbc80.json and headline-ff1d362bbc80.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-ff1d362bbc80.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.