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Proof: French high school protests: The questions raised by two weeks of police intervention

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5ab84d215b04d07402fd89c08c4f4c2f4e68a55456e401a532929d26f822dd68

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970524, mined 2026-10-08 20:02 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 18:13 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5ab84d215b04.json prints 5ab84d215b04d07402fd89c08c4f4c2f4e68a55456e401a532929d26f822dd68. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5ab84d215b04.json and headline-5ab84d215b04.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-5ab84d215b04.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.

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