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Proof: Tips came in minutes after Cornell alerted students to an alleged sex assault at fraternity

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T01:01:02Z","headline":"Tips came in minutes after Cornell alerted students to an alleged sex assault at fraternity","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nbcnews","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tips-came-just-minutes-cornell-alerted-students-alleged-sex-assault-fr-rcna601451","v":1}

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SHA-256

106d6c01d5e621618dc2caacc0d4c641fc0bed7ab7fa87c7db0d895f596e4c40

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970108, mined 2026-10-06 01:09 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 01:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 23:03 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-106d6c01d5e6.json prints 106d6c01d5e621618dc2caacc0d4c641fc0bed7ab7fa87c7db0d895f596e4c40. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-106d6c01d5e6.json and headline-106d6c01d5e6.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-106d6c01d5e6.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.