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Proof: Sparks fly as Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers face off in first Michigan Senate debate

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18b138349120be54a26d4cca1928e21b6a583c43876b0920315aeca22cc357eb

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970574, mined 2026-10-09 02:44 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 02:23 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-18b138349120.json prints 18b138349120be54a26d4cca1928e21b6a583c43876b0920315aeca22cc357eb. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-18b138349120.json and headline-18b138349120.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-18b138349120.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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