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Proof: Bestselling author and scandal-prone ex-Tory MP Jeffrey Archer dies 'suddenly' at home, aged 86

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T20:50:41Z","headline":"Bestselling author and scandal-prone ex-Tory MP Jeffrey Archer dies 'suddenly' at home, aged 86","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"mirror","url":"https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/lord-jeffrey-archer-dies-updated-37738100","v":1}

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SHA-256

1694454d2323fb041f903dca3e477d00b00941d364770a04d64fff220664f2d4

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970080, mined 2026-10-05 21:03 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:54 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:44 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-1694454d2323.json prints 1694454d2323fb041f903dca3e477d00b00941d364770a04d64fff220664f2d4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-1694454d2323.json and headline-1694454d2323.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-1694454d2323.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.