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Proof: The California colleges where popular majors deliver top pay

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T16:50:31Z","headline":"The California colleges where popular majors deliver top pay","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"latimes","url":"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-01/california-colleges-highest-paying-majors","v":1}

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SHA-256

76923247e9758266fab62ca9cb5a4814741117126db48e6e98d64766f03eb648

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969474, mined 2026-10-01 18:08 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-01 16:53 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-76923247e975.json prints 76923247e9758266fab62ca9cb5a4814741117126db48e6e98d64766f03eb648. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-76923247e975.json and headline-76923247e975.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-76923247e975.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, 2 min after it was first seen.