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Proof: Trump keeps changing who will receive the $5,000 dividend — and Americans’ faith in his promise is dropping

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a74c0363a2ac3d37af7c62910cfaacf7a405a9629bbb4ea332b2c83d981b7bae

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970560, mined 2026-10-09 01:09 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 01:01 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 01:03 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a74c0363a2ac.json prints a74c0363a2ac3d37af7c62910cfaacf7a405a9629bbb4ea332b2c83d981b7bae. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a74c0363a2ac.json and headline-a74c0363a2ac.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-a74c0363a2ac.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, 4 min after it was first seen.