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Proof: Illegal vendors are back on Canal Street, hogging a four-block stretch as cops say street sweeps a game of ‘whack-a-mole’

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-02T22:21:38Z","headline":"Illegal vendors are back on Canal Street, hogging a four-block stretch as cops say street sweeps a game of ‘whack-a-mole’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nypost","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-news/illegal-vendors-are-back-on-canal-street-hogging-a-four-block-stretch-as-cops-make-arrests/","v":1}

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SHA-256

35eb9011c04711a5c3a1ef50a0ce05ebbc37c04eb159517931f634e3659e528f

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969644, mined 2026-10-02 23:07 UTC.

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• The record pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture this page: error:job-failed.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 22:24 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-35eb9011c047.json prints 35eb9011c04711a5c3a1ef50a0ce05ebbc37c04eb159517931f634e3659e528f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-35eb9011c047.json and headline-35eb9011c047.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-35eb9011c047.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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