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Proof: Person injured after alleged air-gun shooting at Hamilton bus stop

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T04:12:24Z","headline":"Person injured after alleged air-gun shooting at Hamilton bus stop","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hamilton-bus-stop-shooting-police-seek-witnesses-after-alleged-air-gun-attack/3USUM2FMDVGHBBYIDFJ4FLE5BE/","v":1}

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SHA-256

7d9b64fac0ef398ff100649e0b2f46ea9c6e1170f71eb0591c418b7bcc3b7f8c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969674, mined 2026-10-03 04:28 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 04:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 04:19 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7d9b64fac0ef.json prints 7d9b64fac0ef398ff100649e0b2f46ea9c6e1170f71eb0591c418b7bcc3b7f8c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7d9b64fac0ef.json and headline-7d9b64fac0ef.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-7d9b64fac0ef.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.