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Proof: Susan Collins and Troy Jackson clash over Trump and seniority in Maine Senate debate

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ae5157cc063016bdaee5ee61e2f6c0730b1a8f3bbd3fbf75115f550f6c69259d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970266, mined 2026-10-07 01:15 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 01:00 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ae5157cc0630.json prints ae5157cc063016bdaee5ee61e2f6c0730b1a8f3bbd3fbf75115f550f6c69259d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ae5157cc0630.json and headline-ae5157cc0630.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-ae5157cc0630.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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