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Proof: Japan watchdog probes 4 major brewers over alleged beer price cartel

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T03:31:17Z","headline":"Japan watchdog probes 4 major brewers over alleged beer price cartel","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"kyodo","url":"https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/87413","v":1}

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SHA-256

7766bd55e3412bc78e2c04ab96f4f87fdffb393ed68025eb479ea9f861e5046b

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970282, mined 2026-10-07 03:35 UTC.

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• The record pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture this page: error:job-failed.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 03:50 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7766bd55e341.json prints 7766bd55e3412bc78e2c04ab96f4f87fdffb393ed68025eb479ea9f861e5046b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7766bd55e341.json and headline-7766bd55e341.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-7766bd55e341.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.