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Proof: Sticker shock comes for Metrolink riders with new fare increase: ‘Everyone is struggling’

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T23:12:21Z","headline":"Sticker shock comes for Metrolink riders with new fare increase: ‘Everyone is struggling’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"latimes","url":"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-04/metrolink-riders-hit-with-new-fare-increase-everyone-is-struggling","v":1}

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SHA-256

72a375d457070703add6c85f46159151f2b84f5e88a1fcc83139de688bad4acb

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969921, mined 2026-10-04 23:44 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 23:37 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 23:18 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-72a375d45707.json prints 72a375d457070703add6c85f46159151f2b84f5e88a1fcc83139de688bad4acb. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-72a375d45707.json and headline-72a375d45707.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-72a375d45707.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, 5 min after it was first seen.