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Proof: The profile of Emmanuel Carrère I almost wrote

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T03:31:10Z","headline":"The profile of Emmanuel Carrère I almost wrote","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"lemonde","url":"https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2026/10/03/the-profile-of-emmanuel-carrere-i-almost-wrote_6758206_117.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

e93e3a1771224290367163f103afe681d016cd4e2f3bb14956eadfab838b5d38

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969668, mined 2026-10-03 03:49 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 03:34 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 03:33 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e93e3a177122.json prints e93e3a1771224290367163f103afe681d016cd4e2f3bb14956eadfab838b5d38. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e93e3a177122.json and headline-e93e3a177122.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-e93e3a177122.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.