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Proof: Heatwaves killed over 8,000 people in France this year. Here are some of their stories

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256

329bcf023e33e5902c9c982daf5f5479f1c21aba2e1bb6313dd7c59b9921d8a5

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969890, mined 2026-10-04 19:35 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 18:19 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:job-failed.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-329bcf023e33.json prints 329bcf023e33e5902c9c982daf5f5479f1c21aba2e1bb6313dd7c59b9921d8a5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-329bcf023e33.json and headline-329bcf023e33.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-329bcf023e33.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.