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Proof: Russia slams Kyiv in mass missile, drone attack on Putin's 74th birthday

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T00:32:43Z","headline":"Russia slams Kyiv in mass missile, drone attack on Putin's 74th birthday","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"kyivindependent","url":"https://kyivindependent.com/russia-slams-kyiv-in-mass-missile-drone-attack-on-putins-74th-birthday/","v":1}

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SHA-256

d050c2fee0dfa444d3463ad23997e2f186af629fac9544a6493bf3188db94e9a

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970264, mined 2026-10-07 01:05 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:38 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:39 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d050c2fee0df.json prints d050c2fee0dfa444d3463ad23997e2f186af629fac9544a6493bf3188db94e9a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-d050c2fee0df.json and headline-d050c2fee0df.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-d050c2fee0df.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.