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Proof: Singer Camille O’Sullivan: ‘I had cancer during Covid. I was so scared. It was caught by chance’

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23fc72201cfbbd7c8fc229509f1f85278f450b2893bd54d646d3ba12c7c00110

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-23fc72201cfb.json prints 23fc72201cfbbd7c8fc229509f1f85278f450b2893bd54d646d3ba12c7c00110. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-23fc72201cfb.json and headline-23fc72201cfb.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-23fc72201cfb.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.

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