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Proof: 'Very concerned': Police search missing Christchurch man's last known address

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-02T00:12:13Z","headline":"'Very concerned': Police search missing Christchurch man's last known address","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/braydon-hepworth-missing-from-christchurch-police-search-last-known-address/OCMCBSOQONF3PMLL52YC3NA34E/","v":1}

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SHA-256

5ba69d9f766c96d57068388cb8929c99bf1f94e016e0d465e659d6354a19885d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969510, mined 2026-10-02 00:47 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 00:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 00:17 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5ba69d9f766c.json prints 5ba69d9f766c96d57068388cb8929c99bf1f94e016e0d465e659d6354a19885d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5ba69d9f766c.json and headline-5ba69d9f766c.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-5ba69d9f766c.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, 5 min after it was first seen.